palos

palos

English: Translation: alight; get off; dismount; step down

Part of Speech: verb

English: Definition:
To leave an elevated support, conveyance, or position by stepping or moving down from it onto a lower surface, especially when getting off a vehicle, stepping down from a ladder, stair, platform, raised floor, or similar structure.

The defining feature is movement off or away from the elevated thing supporting or carrying the person, rather than downward locomotion along a route.

Semantic Domain: Physical actions; Movement; Transportation

Notes:
Distinguished from other Boie’nen downward-motion verbs:

• ro’sog — to walk downward or descend along a slope, stairway, or inclined path.
• bongsod — to descend or trek downhill/down from the mountain, especially along a sloping or mountain route.
• palos — to step off/down from the elevated object or conveyance itself.

Thus a person may ro’sog down a staircase or bongsod down a mountain trail, but palos from a vehicle, ladder, platform, or other elevated support.

Do not confuse with ro’song, “to launch a dugout canoe or boat by pushing it from shore into the water.”

Linguistic History:
Cognate with Central Bikol palós, “go down; get off; dismount,” and apparently continuing an inherited Austronesian lexeme associated historically with coming or slipping off something. The Boie’nen evidence supports a specialized modern sense centered on alighting or disengaging oneself from an elevated support rather than generalized downward movement.

Related entries:
ro’sog — See also
bongsod — See also
tokad — See also; directional contrast
ro’song — Homophone/near-form only if warranted by pronunciation; semantically unrelated