nujinget : scaler (in lumbering) / one who does the measuring / scale (in lumbering)

Recordings:

Diane Mitchell (Listuguj)

Eunice Metallic

Joe Wilmot

Part of speech: noun animate

Translation: Scaler

Gloss: scaler (in lumbering)

Gloss: one who does the measuring

Example:

Text: Nujinget pas'g enget sitmug, mu nipugtug.

Translation: The scaler just scales by the shore, not in the woods.

Recording: Eunice Metallic

Pronunciation guide: nu·jin·ket

Alternate grammatical form:

nujing'tijig — scalers — (plural)

nujingelitl — a scaler — (fourth person)

Part of speech: verb animate intransitive

Translation: He/she scales (in lumbering)

Gloss: scale (in lumbering)

Example:

Text: Nujingei, aq teliapje'jg ta'n goqwei gisgug pisgwa'q, mu suel lugowaqan geggunmu.

Translation: I am a scaler, and there is so little coming in today, I hardly have any work.

Recording: Diane Mitchell (Listuguj)

Pronunciation guide: nu·jin·ket

Alternate grammatical form:

nujingei — I scale (in lumbering) — (first person singular animate)

nujingeieg — we scale (in lumbering) — (first person dual exclusive animate)

nujing'tieg — we scale (in lumbering) — (first person plural exclusive animate)

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