kopkop 1v To embrace one another as sign of affection or reconciliation. [Embracing is practiced when one sees a friend or loved one whom one has not seen for a long time. It is often a part of a reconciliation.] 2v To have people embrace such as when reconciling them. Pinogkopkop kow on su su nokog-ulì on ka goinawa now. You led to embrace each other because you had been reconciled (lit. your breath has returned to each other). 3v To hold someone in an embrace, such as to restrain. [After a death, even if it is from disease, one person may hold the bereaved person in an embrace while another takes away his/her knife lest that person use it hurt himself or others during the first moments of grief and frustration.] 4To cause something to adhere to something else as a bandage or a wad of wet tabacco placed against the skin. Ko du-on kogang, ogluiton ka tabakù no igpakopkop to palì no ig-atang to langow. If someone has an infected sore, [he will] peal off some tabacco and cause it to adhere [to the sore] to keep off the flies. 5v Hug oneself especially to keep oneself warm.
