Boie'nen (Old Buhi Language)

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English: Translation

A traditional Boie’nen practice of betel quid chewing.

Notes

Essential Ingredients:
1. *Bonga* (Areca nut): seed of the Areca palm (Areca catechu)
2. *Boyo’* (Betel leaf): Piper betle leaves wrapping the areca nut
3. *Apog* (Lime): applied to the betel leaf
4. Tabako’’ or *Mascada* (chewing tobacco), provides an extra stimulant effect.

ma-ma’

(V)

to chew betel; to repeatedly masticate (with cyclic oral contact)

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