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nangagiparapanobli— The actors are habitually or customarily engaged in tubli fishing.
nipanobli— To be presently using tubli to stun fish.
magitoblien— To be about to use tubli to stun fish
magipanoblien— To be about to engage in tubli fishing; to be going to use tubli to stun fish.
nangagipanobli— The actors are presently using tubli to stun fish.
nangagpanobli— The actors deliberately used tubli to stun fish.
boyboy¹— A traditional Boie’nen method of storing sogrong (paired coconuts) by looping each pair over a sturdy upright pole using the natural husk handles (boyboy) formed from the coconuts themselves. Two sogrong are placed opposite one another at each level, allowing the stack to rise as high as the pole can safely support without toppling.
intindi / intyindi— To understand; comprehend; grasp the meaning, intention, or significance of something.
bilada
abrak— Affectionate play involving gentle teasing, playful gestures, or humorous interaction intended to express warmth, intimacy, or friendship.
alpot— Boisterous, high-energy play characterized by laughter, vigorous movement, and shared enjoyment, without emphasis on competition or dominance.
sogrongaintyindi— A double entendre; a word, expression, or statement intentionally or unintentionally conveying two distinct interpretations simultaneously, often with one meaning being humorous, ironic, suggestive, or culturally nuanced. Literally, **“paired meanings” or “bound understandings.
sapopo
siksik— To pick lice or nits from the hair by searching the scalp manually with the fingers, feeling among the hair, pinching individual hairs near their base, and sliding the fingers upward to remove attached lice or nits; to delouse oneself or another person by this traditional manual method.
pikit— Having noticeably narrow, almond-shaped, or obliquely slanting eyes, especially as a natural physical characteristic; slant-eyed; narrow-eyed. Often used as the Boie’nen equivalent of Tagalog /singkit/
borarat— Having noticeably large, round, wide-open, or prominent eyes; *round-eyed; big-eyed. The semantic opposite of pikit
akme’— Having a noticeably prominent, projecting, or protruding chin that extends forward beyond the normal facial profile. Describes a natural physical characteristic of a person whose chin is unusually pronounced. The term is generally descriptive and may be used neutrally or humorously depending on context.
ke’ke’an
nake’ke’an— Having been struck on the chin; having received a blow to the chin
kine’ke’an— To strike someone deliberately on the chin; to land a blow on the chin, especially an uppercut.
nasapayo— Having received a blow to the head; having become struck on the head.** **Emphasizes the resulting state rather than the agent performing the action.
pimatamata— To look down on, belittle, denigrate, underestimate, or treat another person as socially inferior through one’s words, attitude, or behavior.
kinamet— To use one’s hand intentionally instead of the customary implement or tool; to perform an action manually.
napayo— Having been struck on the head accidentally or unintentionally
pina-a— To use the foot intentionally instead of the hands in performing an action.
nagima’tan
sinao’na
rani
rinayo’
rayo’— distance
abat
tapis
didal— A **thimble**; a small protective cap, traditionally made of metal, bone, wood, or other hard material, worn over the fingertip—usually the middle finger—while sewing by hand to protect the finger and to provide leverage for pushing a needle through cloth or other materials. Traditionally used by Boie’nen hand sewers, embroiderers, quilt makers, and others engaged in needlework.
kagbabayi— people on the bride’s side
lekab— To pry, peel, or lever something loose by inserting a thin object or applying force beneath an edge; to detach an object firmly attached to a surface; to force open the two valves of a bivalve shellfish. Used especially for removing materials fixed by adhesion or pressure, such as old floor tiles, wooden boards, bark, or tightly closed shells.
kiskisen
sibot— To be busy, hurried, or preoccupied with numerous tasks, especially preparations requiring sustained effort and attention.
kapoy— Physically tired, exhausted, or fatigued after prolonged work, exertion, or lack of rest.
pinayo— To strike someone deliberately on the head.
nainge’ke’an— To have received one’s deserved comeuppance; to have gotten what one deserved after acting with arrogance, pride, conceit, or misplaced self-confidence.
tinood— To strike, hit, or attack someone using the knee; to knee.
geret
ayam— dog
banting— A rattan lashing or other strong binding used to secure structural members together, especially in traditional bamboo construction.
talaked— The traditional craft, technique, and technology of joining structural members with natural lashings, especially split rattan. Encompasses the design, preparation, and execution of durable joints in bamboo and wooden construction without the use of metal fasteners.
teged²— A*makeshift working shelter consisting of an attached supporting framework built against one or more standing trees and roofed with leaves or grass. Traditionally used for stripping abaca fibers and other temporary field work.
kedked— To seize, catch, apprehend, drag away, detain, or bring someone under restraint in order to answer for an offense or wrongdoing. Implies not merely physical capture but placing a person under authority, custody, or legal accountability. By extension, to compel someone to face the consequences of an action.
pandeg— A pillory, wooden clamp, stocks, or similar restraining device used to immobilize a person’s lower leg or ankle as punishment, detention, or public confinement. Traditionally consists of two heavy wooden members fitted together to clamp the leg securely, preventing escape while leaving the prisoner standing or seated nearby. By extension, any device that mechanically restrains the lower limbs.
kalitsi— The alkaline solution produced by leaching wood ash or similar mineral-rich materials with water.
tagek— Plant extract or expressed juice obtained by squeezing, pressing, crushing, grating, or cutting fruits, leaves, stems, roots, or other plant tissues.
tagwes— To emit a deep, audible, expressive exhalation after physical, mental, or emotional exertion; to breathe out forcefully in relief, fatigue, or release, producing a prolonged “whew!” or “whoo… -like sound. Describes the involuntary or deliberate release of pent-up breath after strenuous activity, stressful circumstances, overwhelming emotion, or sudden relief.
tangro’— To place property, goods, livestock, labor, services, or other assets into consideration for exchange, sale, collateral, investment, or contractual arrangement; to formally offer or propose something of value in expectation of a future return. Unlike a simple act of selling, /tangro’/ implies intentionally putting one’s resources “into play.”
maro’— To rear, raise, cultivate, maintain, or care for plants or animals so that they survive, multiply, mature, and increase one’s future resources.
kapay— crazy
ina’¹— mother
da’kere’abotbot— Easily offended, easily irritated, or quick to take offense, especially over teasing, jokes, harmless remarks, or minor slights; thin-skinned; touchy.
da’kere’asese’dan— A synonymous, more emphatic or colloquial form of da’kere’abotbot
baston
bombilya— lightbulb
katsotsa— a kind of fabric-made cap
kalintora— fever
eken
lokot
koloriti— rouge
te’dan— to not consume or use up everything and leave something for something or someone particularly food
(saka)¹
saka²
saka³— The natural keratinous spur projecting from the back of the lower leg of a mature rooster, used for defense and dominance, and especially prized in gamefowl. Distinguished from the artificial metal spur attached for organized cockfighting.
sakaen
parabolang— A cockfighting enthusiast, bettor, handler, or habitual participant in cockfighting gambling.
topada— An informal, unscheduled, or clandestine cockfight, typically conducted outside licensed cockpits and often involving illegal gambling. Contrasts with organized cockfights held in a /bolangan/
bolangan— A cockfighting arena, cockpit, or venue where organized cockfights are held.
pangbolang— A gamecock bred, trained, or maintained specifically for cockfighting. Literally, “a rooster intended for the bolang.”
kapkap
kitkit
apwas
pangipit— A clamp, vise, clip, press, or other implement used to grip, secure, immobilize, or compress something between opposed surfaces.
sipit— A tong, clip, clothespin, or similar implement whose two opposed arms or jaws close upon an object to grip and hold it. Used especially for a laundry clip or any small gripping tool that holds by spring tension or manual compression.
ipit— trap; catch; pinch between objects
rine-et— Pressed or pushed firmly together; brought into close contact.
re-eten— To press or push the specified patient firmly against another surface.
inipa’an— Was lain in wait for; was ambushed or waylaid at a particular place or circumstance.
agnas— state of animal or human cadaver decomposition
ledab— flame; illumination
silyab— spark, combust
iningwas— A traditional Boie’nen pork-offal stew cooked in coconut milk, thickened with fresh pork blood, and finished with vinegar.
katyan
esadkatyan
kalalawgen
magkalalawgen
ka-ata-as
baba’
ababa’
ka-ababa’
silyak— To abruptly scold or shout at someone in a moment of frustration. It’s quick, cutting, and often directed at someone close.
kagrok— To spontaneously gather as onlookers. The draw is curiosity, not participation. Think rubberneckers, bargain hunters, or fans forming a circle around a busker.
rapas
toma— A pubic louse or crab louse; a small, broad-bodied blood-feeding parasite traditionally found clinging to human pubic hair or other coarse body hair.
paltik— A small, dark-colored jumping flea that lives in dry, dusty ground or floor surfaces and feeds on the blood of humans and domestic animals, especially dogs. It commonly jumps onto passing hosts and bites the feet, ankles, or lower legs, producing small, intensely itchy swellings. It may also be found moving or feeding among a dog’s fur.
garapata— A tick; a small blood-feeding arachnid that crawls onto a person or animal, attaches itself firmly to the skin, and remains there while feeding. Commonly found on dogs, livestock, and other animals, especially in the fur, around the ears, between the toes, or on other protected parts of the body. A feeding **garapata** may become noticeably swollen as its body fills with blood.
saklot— The act of swooping down and snatching, as done by birds of prey.
olayan
loway— slow, gentle, soft (as to sound, not texture)
kabog— to stir* up mud from the lake, river or similar body of water’s bottom; roil
gaid— to lead or drag towards
asod— A collective pounding activity in which two or more people, each using a pestle, pound rice or another material in a single large mortar through a rapid, coordinated succession of strokes.
bayo— To pound something repeatedly with a pestle or similar implement, especially in order to loosen, separate, or remove its husk, shell, pod, or other outer covering.
ba’go— new
tikmo’— To receive a light or moderate blow on the chin, usually causing the mouth and lower face to jerk, pucker, or make a brief chewing-like movement. The impact is noticeable but less forceful or consequential than that expressed by nake’ke’an or nainge’ke’an
tokmo’— Closely fitted, securely joined, or properly seated together at a joint, seam, connection, or point of attachment. Used of two or more parts whose edges, ends, projections, grooves, or connecting surfaces meet accurately and hold together firmly, as in a well-made dovetail joint, mortise-and-tenon joint, fitted frame, interlocking boards, or properly seated mechanical parts.
olay— To carry a load by means of a shoulder pole or carrying pole, with the pole resting across one shoulder or across the nape and supported by both shoulders.
karis— To level off grain, flour, rice, sugar, or another loose substance contained in a vessel used for measuring volume by drawing a straight-edged object across the vessel’s rim and removing everything above the prescribed level.
angay— Suitable, fitting, appropriate, becoming, or well matched to a person, object, purpose, circumstance, or occasion.
osay— To fix, arrange, organize, straighten out, or put something into proper order; to correct a state of disorder, confusion, displacement, or malfunction.
oyat-oyat
malo’
tengew— bright-red chigger or grass-mite larva that attaches in warm skin folds, especially the scrotum, causing extreme itching and swelling
bowangew— large fly; large carrion fly; blowfly-like fly. A conspicuously large, heavy-bodied fly that occasionally appears inside houses and is traditionally perceived as approximately three or four times the bulk of an ordinary /langew/ It is often distinguished by its robust body, prominent buzzing, and comparatively noticeable flight.
ma’wet— to hope that something desirable will happen or become true, especially when its realization remains uncertain or depends partly on circumstances beyond the experiencer’s control.
nana’— pus
rogmon— A den, lair, burrow, nest, or sheltered breeding and resting place occupied by rats, wild pigs, and other terrestrial animals.
pigapiga— The calf of the leg; the thick muscular prominence at the back of the lower leg between the knee and ankle.
piga— Fish roe; the mass of eggs contained in or released by a female fish. May refer collectively to fish eggs as food or as the reproductive eggs of a fish.
tolostolos— “Right now, really?”; “Immediately?”; “You mean I must do it right away?
tolos¹— Jammed, tightly binding, or locked upon itself, especially of a knot, cinch, tie, shoelace, cord, or similar fastening that is difficult to loosen or undo.
ngowantolos— now—right away / immediatly
torosan— To loosen something or give it additional slack. To reduce the tension on a cord, rope, line, tie, strap, or similar flexible object.
toros— Loose; slack; not tight. Describes a knot, tie, strap, line, cord, lashing, garment, or similar object that lacks sufficient tension or has not been firmly tightened.
eres— To walk or move slowly enough to fall behind others.
oros— A state of looseness, slackness, sagging, or slipping caused by insufficient tension, grip, or fit. Used of a band, loop, strap, garment, or similar object that does not hold firmly and therefore slips or hangs loosely.
asopri— Sulfur; the yellow mineral substance associated especially with volcanic ground, hot springs, pungent fumes, and steaming geothermal areas.
asodi
tya’gaw— butiki
toko’— tuko
pali-ek
layag— sail
tandayag
pampang
aboen— gray
dikapi— brown
an-it
anit— leather
agiyan— To swing by, stop by, call on, visit briefly, pick up, fetch, collect, deliver to, or otherwise attend to someone or something encountered along the way to another destination.
agian— A way, walkway, trail, path, passage, or route through which a person, animal, or vehicle normally goes or passes.
kasabiyan— saying, proverb, a short pithy saying in general use, stating a general truth or piece of advice.
sasabyen— Something that is about to be said, told, stated, or communicated.
sasabien— Language; a recognized system or variety of speech used by a community.
osip— To converse, talk together, or engage one another in verbal interaction.
magosip— To converse, talk together, or enter into a discussion; to have a conversation. It may express invitation, intention, arrangement, or prospective action rather than simple future tense.
niosip— To be conversing, talking together, or engaged in an unfolding discussion
niosipen— To be engaged in conversation at a stated or anticipated time; to be talking something over.
miosipen— To be about to converse, begin discussing, or engage in a conversation; to have an impending discussion.
nagosip— To have conversed, discussed, met, or talked a matter over.
pagkaorosipan— A mutual understanding, agreement, or conclusion reached through discussion; something arrived at by talking a matter over together
e-man— Complete, finish, or bring something to its intended final state.
e-manna— Already complete, assembled, constructed, finished, settled, or ready for use.
sominabi— Spoke, said, or told; performed a completed speech event, with the speaker foregrounded.
sabyen— To say, tell, state, or communicate a particular message or piece of information; foregrounds what is to be said.
sinabi— Was said or told; refers to a statement or message as the completed result of speaking
sabyan— To tell or speak to someone; to direct speech or information toward a recipient or communicative target.
pisabyan— To be in the process of telling, informing, or speaking to someone; presents the recipient-directed speech event as ongoing or internally unfolding.
sinabyan— Told, informed, or spoke to someone; presents recipient-directed communication as completed. The person addressed, informed, or spoken to is foregrounded.
isinolsog— To have been reported, told on, exposed through another person’s words, or made the subject of an adverse report.
pinagsolsogan— To have discussed, talked about, or made someone or something the subject of conversation.
tala-ed— Cattle Egret; Eastern Cattle Egret. A small, stocky white heron commonly seen in rice fields, pastures, grasslands, and other open agricultural areas. It characteristically walks near cattle, carabaos, and other large grazing animals, catching insects and other small prey disturbed by their movement
pagkaeremanan— An agreement, settled understanding, completed arrangement, or mutually established decision.
e-mana— To finish, complete, assemble, or bring an activity to its intended conclusion.
{Ee}— The fifth letter of the Boie’nen alphabet; the grapheme representing the phoneme /E/.
alipedngan
libeng
ba’red
tilwa’— vomit
lagatob
lagatik
ga-ot
/ʔː/— A contrastive moraic glottal phoneme in Boie’nen, realized through a sustained or rhythmically weighted glottal closure. It occupies an independent timing unit and contributes phonological weight to the syllable or prosodic domain in which it occurs
bari’— To break because of bending, compression, or excessive mechanical stress.
teptep— To trim by cutting off projecting or pointed extremities in order to reduce function, prepare an object for use, or facilitate a particular purpose.
tabtab— To dismantle or take apart a constructed object by cutting through its bindings, joints, lashings, or supporting members with an edged tool.
pongngo
banta’— ntroduces a consequence, result, or ensuing state arising from a preceding circumstance or condition.
banta’en
logod— naturally; deservedly; no wonder; understandably; after all; as expected
bayaan
o’na— first
nao’na— the first
pangdowa— second
pangtolo— third
olpot— emerge; come out; protrude
olbot
sogkot
nangpangdowa— the second
nangpangtolo— the third
nangpangepat— the fourth
nangpanglima— the fifth
nangpangenem— the sixth
nangpangpito— the seventh
nangpangwalo— the eighth
nangpangsiyam— the ninth, 9th
nangpangsampolo’— tenth, 10th

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