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ag-agan deriv. of: ag-ag. n 1A sieve. Ka harina, ko konò ogbayò to ag-agan, ogtimpuruk. Flour, if it doesn't pass through a sieve, it will become lumpy. 2A strainer or filter, used to remove debris from a liquid. [DB would apply this term only for a sifter of dry ingredients. Other speakers use this term generically for a sifter, strainer, or filter of either wet or dry ingredients.] spec: salà 1.
dayagang 1n Strength (physical). Niglibong ka maroyow no dayagang ku. My good strength returned. 2v To strain with much effort, as a woman in childbirth or someone doing a physically difficult task. Ko oggabas, ogkanokal ki ko ogpandayagang ki to oghusud. When we saw [a log], we exert effort when we strain to pull back [on the saw]. Ko hayod, ogpandayagang ka inoy. When in labor, the mother strains with much effort. 3n Someone who is strong, healthy. see fr.: bunbungan 5; see: manokal 1; see: nokal 1.
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.
ponod v 1To exercize self control. Ka otow no ogponod to goinawa ko ogsulungan sikandin, ka ogkoumaan to ogpakaponod to goinawa [no] maawang ka pog-ugpò din. The person who exercises self control when he is attacked is the one who will develop the ability to control himself and then his living situation will be peaceful. 2To endure silently; be brave. To steel oneself against pain, pressure. 2.1With negative, not to be able to endure something, jsuch as a child who will cry if he is given an injection.. osyn: aguanta 2. 3With negative, not to be able to restrain oneself, as from retaliation or giving into temptation. Warò a makaponod to igkabolù ku to sikan no otow. I was not able to restrain my anger at that person. [The following negative example would imply that the angry person would say something or even hit to the person with whom he was angry.] 4To be able (or unable) to restrain oneself. Du-on otow no ogsulungan sikandin to usig din no konò ogpakaponod sikandin to goinawa rin ogpaka-atu kandin. There was a oerson who was attacked by his enemy and was unable to restrain himself from resisting/fighting back. 5To control, as one’s anger; to restrain oneself, as from temptation. Ponora nu ka goinawa nu. Restrain yourself (lit. your breath). 6Keep on doing something, especially if it is difficult. Naponod on no ogtalabaluon. [He/they were able to keep on working.
salà 1v To strain or filter out something from liquid. Ogsala-an ta ka lagut no diò to palangana. Ka lagut diò to woig ka ogkasalà. We strain out the debris which was in the basin. It is the debris in the water which is strained out [A sieve may be used either to strain or to sift, but the word ag-ag “sift” is used exclusively for sifting something dry and salà is used for straining or filtering something out of water or oil.] gen: ag-agan 2. 2To strain or filter something from a liquid. Ko ogbabalun ki diò to pantad, ogsabukan to bayokbok oyow ogkasalà ka mgo lagut. If we make a shallow well on the beach, we place sand there so that the debris will be filtered out.
sulud phr.: sulud to ubal. 1n Fine toothed comb for combing out lice from hair. 2v To strain hair through a comb in order to remove lice. 3A long comb of la-ak with fine teeth for combing lice and nits from the hair.
wagoddoy v 1To struggle against restraint., as a horse which will not allow its owner to put a halter on its head. 2To rear up, buck or weave from side to side in an effort to get rid of a rider from its back. Ogwagoddoy ka kuddò ko og-unturan su oyow og-ulugon ki. A horse [tries] to throw the one who has mounted it so that we will fall off.