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gitò n Juice or sap of various vegetables and fruits such as sweet potatoes (camote), bananas, squash. (The sap of the pangi called lagas or the poisonous tuber kolut must be removed by soaking.) Du-on gitò to lagas woy to kolut. There is poisonous sap in the seeds of the pangi and in the kolut tuber. gen: lagot.
lagas phr.: dilò to lagas. 1n The seeds of the pangi fruit. 2v To soak out the poisonous sap before cooking. Pamurut kow pad to lagas su oglagason ta. Pick up the pangi seeds because we will soak out [the poisonous sap]. 3n Time when the seeds of the pangi fruit are becoming ready to gather, typically in January when it may be rainy season.
pangi adj large, oval, light tan fruit of a tree; governs the time of cutting and planting of rice field; the seed, lagas, is cut up and eaten.