Sama, Central

ndah

N-, -an

to see; to look; to watch.

Because this stem starts with a double consonant, to maintain the integrity of the double consonant sound, one would expect a prefix which ends in a vowel to be affixed to it with a hyphen, as ni-ndah . Not so, the prefix sound appears to be assimilating to nindah .

Ndaun kappal.

Look at the boat.

Bey tandah ku ya.

I could see him.

Ngandah aku magbola.

I am watching the ball game.

panggow; pandah

eh, ni-

to be seen.

Jantang nindah bang aa toa tantang.

If [there is] a naked old person [he/she] is very ugly to be seen.

A naked old person looks terrible.

panga-, -an

to test someone; to see what will happen.

Hangkan ya missala beteh tutu, pangandaan na si Abdul.

The reason he is speaking like this, is to see what Abdul will do.

-an

to foresee.

Ndaan si Abdul takka si Young pahalu.

Abdul foresees Young's arrival tomorrow.

kandah

maka-/ka-

to able to see something extraordinary; to see something revealed. See the main entry kandah .

aa ngandah

angandah

a psychic; fortune teller.

Literally, "a person [who] sees" or, "a seeing person".

pangandah

sight.

Masi tallak pangandah-na minsan ya toa na.

His sight is still bright even though he is old now.

His sight is still keen even though he is old.

tandah

sign; evidence.

tandah