getes

getes

v.

1. to gather or harvest leafy vegetables, herbs, or tender edible shoots.
2. to pick leaves selectively without uprooting the plant.

USAGE

Nangngetes iyang tawatawa.
“He gathered tawatawa.”

Naggetes sira nin ogbos kamote.
“They gathered sweet potato leaves.”

DERIVED FORMS

gometes (-om- + getes)
to gather leafy vegetables.

naggetes
gathered.

paggetes
the gathering of leafy vegetables.

NOTES

Unlike other harvesting verbs, getes is restricted to leafy vegetation.

Compare:

• goro’ — harvest fruit.
• poso’ — harvest corn.
• polot — harvest rice.
• teba’ — harvest bananas.
• tipo’ — harvest coconuts.
• kali — dig up root crops