pisabyan
English: Translation
To be in the process of telling, informing, or speaking to someone; presents the recipient-directed speech event as ongoing or internally unfolding.
Morphology
[ROOT: sabi] v. recipient/target-oriented; ongoing or unfolding; pisabyan (pi- + sabi → abi + glide y + -an)
Notes
pisabyan
This is the productive ongoing counterpart of sabyan and sinabyan.
Paradigm: sabyan : pisabyan : sinabyan.
Usage note: Do not replace this form with mechanically constructed nisabyan. The sequence ni- + sabi + -an is nonproductive in this paradigm.