aloy₁ see fr.: lagap. vs 1To be distracted or drawn away from a thought or activity by something else. Ko du-on oghimuon ta di ko du-on igkasasow ta, na-akoban ka oghimuon ta porom no an-anayan no na-aloy ki diò to dangob no warò ta nato-ori. If there is something we are [planning on] doing something but if there is something worrying us, the thing we would have done at the beginning is supplanted (lit. layered or covered over) and then we are drawn away to something else and so we didn't accomplish [what we started out to do]. see: talantan 2; see: ayat 4. 2To have one’s thoughts preoccupied by something. Ogka-aloy ka doromdom nu to mgo ulod-ulod no konò ka ogpakasagman to pogko-on. Your thoughts were being preoccupied with the [small] creatures and so you were not able to pay attention to food. [DB comment regarding a childhood experience when I played with bugs and snails and then could not eat my lunch because I was still thinking of those creatures.] see fr.: akob 4.
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konò ogsagman phr. of: sagman. 1To ignore, not pay attention to, such as to not allow something to bother one. Ko og-ogotan, konò ogsagman. If he is scolded, he doesn't pay attention to it. Ogpalingowlingow dò du-on; konò din ogsagmanon. He just [purposely] forgets it; he doesn't pay attention to it. Warò dan masagman. They ignored [what they heard]. Anoy a no batò, warò inoy ku no nigsagman kanak. Ever since I was a child, I didn't have a mother to attend to me. [One of the characteristics of a person of good character is that he does not allow criticism to upset him so that the following two examples of ignoring, or not paying attention to scolding is seen as a good characteristic.] 2v To be able to pay attention to. Ogka-aloy ka doromdom nu to mgo ulod-ulod no konò ka ogpakasagman to pogko-on. Your thoughts were distracted by the insects (lit. creatures) and so you were not able to pay attention to eating.
