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bangalug 1n A pass, or valley between the slopes of mountains or those of a canyon Ka taliwarò to darua no bubungan, sikan ka bangalug. An [area] between two mountains, that is a pass. 2v To dip or create a valley between mountains. Ka tanò ligkat to songo bubungan, ogbangalug to bunsaran to dangob no bubungan. The ground from one mountain, creates a valley over to the slope of the other mountain. [This is a low area which may or may not be napù “flat”.] 3n A channel, groove or ditch, where water passes. [whether manmade or made by the water itself.] 4v To make a channel or ditch for the passage of water. Diò to tanò ku, nigtikù ka bo-ogan no ungod ogtabal ka tanò. Ka tu-ud ku, oghimu a to dalan to woig no igbangalug oyow ogbot-os ka woig. On my property, there is a curving stream which always makes the soil collapse. My intention is to make a pathway for the water to channel it so that the water will go directly across (lit. short-cut). 5v To follow the channel of a creek or travel the pass between mountains Du-on otow no ogpaginbangalug no ogbayò no ogtakorog on ko oghondiò to bubungan. Some people follow a creek when they travel and go uphill when they go to the mountains.
lampoy v 1Travel up and over a summit, as to go up, over and down a mountain. Ka mgo otow no ogbot-os ka ogligkat to Tagasan, ogtakorog to bubungan ka oglampoy ka oghipanow no ogliling on ka ogtupang ka oghondiò to Maambago. The people who who short-cut form Tagasan, they travel up the mountain and traverse up and over the summit and descend as they travel downhill to Maambago. [The same word could also be applied to a plane which travels up and over the “top” of the earth even though it maintains a consistant altitude whiile traveling. (Traveling around the earth would be londig, the same word as traversing a mountain across the face or horizontally across the slope.)] 2To fly up and over the top of the earth. Ka ariplanu no ogligkat to Hapun ka oghondiò to Amirika, oglampoy to kalibutan. An airplane which originates at Japan and goes to America, travels uphill as it flies and descends as it travels downhill as it short-cuts the earth. 3
sugud v 1To go the long way around, such as to follow a river around its bends. Nigsugud ka. You followed [the river] around its bends. ant: bot-os 1; see fr.: sugud 2. 2Round-about, as of awkwardly worded sentence. [Ka kinagian,] nakasugud. [The wording,] was round-about. [DB applied word to a round-about sentence structure] see: sugud 1.
