amapitsaitsapai

Verb

 * 1)  he/she/it forewarns, augurs, portends (is an omen or harbinger) of misfortune or ill tidings to someone
 * Aminya ya pamapitsaitsapai, uma ipitsi.
 * "You shall not be an omen of ill," [she] said to him.
 * Maka minya pamapitsaitse, aitsa wa ha.
 * "Never shall you be a harbinger of death. That shall not be."
 * Katepe pamapitsaitsa, aminya wa han. Aitsa pawojo pamapitsaitsapai.
 * "Don't even think of being an omen of evil. That you may not do."
 * Kalahan, akain ta-ka-pai yeetsopou, akain taka yeetsopou, punupa pikityeko-je-eu.
 * "In days to come, when the piqui fruit starts falling, [in the season when] when it falls, you see… then will your voice be heard."
 * [Punupa uno takene yeetsopoeu whun]
 * [Side comment by the storyteller:] "You'll see when it rains later [you'll hear the sound]."
 * Pa pikityeko-je-eu whun, umapai. Tu-ru! tu-ru! tu-ru! puME eu whun.
 * "Then shall you speak," she said. "Tu-ru! tu-ru! tu-ru! shall you say," [she] said.
 * Kata pamapitsaitsa, aitsa wa. Kajutukalupei yiu.
 * "That you should be a harbinger of misfortune – you shall not. You shall become a frog."