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likag 1Charm for catching pigs. 2Pangi fruit carried with the current of the river.
likal v To break a cooking pot - only used of a certain soft kind of firewood. Pakalikal ka pogul to kalò. The pogul will break the frying pan.
liklik v To swim on one’s back.
likoy Decorated with metal twisted around it.
likù v To return. Nakalikù. He had to turn around and go back.
lilid v To roll Og-alikon oyow ogkalilid on. It is lifted by leverage so that it will roll. 1.1v The process of rolling. Igbagdak ka su-an oyow ogkohonat to poglilid. The lever is thrust [under the log] so that it will be lifted in the process of rolling. see: balikid 1.
liling 1v To go down. 2v To put pieces of board around the tops of posts of a granary so that rats can’t climb up them. 3To give outright. 4To climb down a mountain.
liliungan see fr.: bubung 1. n Ridgepole.
limang n Other side; [opposite side]. Ka baloy ko ian dò bintanà, ispiu, mo-ilag dò su ogkito-on ta rò ka limang su ma-awang ka pogpitow ta. A house if it only has glass windows, they are transparent because we can see through to the other side because our view is unobstructed. see fr.: banoy₂ 3.
limas v To remove water from a shallow pool so that the fish will be easy to catch. Ka mgo bo-ugan no naligtung on, oglimasan ta taman to og-oti on no ogko-utol tad ka mgo ngalap. The creeks which have become shallow pools, we remove the water until it dries up and then we can catch the fish [and other edible water creatures]. [Word is also used of removing water from a boat which has taken on water.]
limatok n 1A kind of leech. see fr.: dampolak. 2A tiny bean blossom.
limbangawan n An eye leech.
limbas n File.
limma 1n Five (counting.) see fr.: kalimma-an. 2adj Five things. 3adj Fifth 4n Five days.
limmow n A citrus fruit.
limorang v 1To be ticklish. 2Makes us feel squeemish Ogkito-on tad ka moon-ing no alibutod no og-aliboodbood on. Ogkalimorang kid to ogpitow. Ogpanlitigan ki no ogpansasindog ka mgo yubuyubu to bulbul to bolad ta. We see the many grubs which are squirming. It makes us feel squeemish to see it. It gives us goose pimples and the small hairs of our arms stand on end. 3Gives us the willies. Ko du-on ulod no namatoy no imbalabag diò to dalan ko du-on ogpakabayò, ogkuiton din su ogkalimorang. Ogkaallok. If there is a dead snake which is laying across the trail if someone is passing by, he will shove [it] out of the way because it gives him the willies. He is afraid.
limot n A ring for the finger.
limpas v To sacrifice chickens before cutting the rice fields, to insure a successful field.
limpong see fr.: ponong 3.
limposug v To grow fast. Oglimposug ka batò. The child grows fast.
limpot v To enclose; an enclosure.
limpung v dammed up Du-on woig no nalimpung diò to kanal; konò ogkabayò. There is water which is dammed up in the canal; it cannot pass. see: ponong 1.
limu₁ 1v Chicken fight (lit. for chickens to fight one another). 2vs To have a stomachache. 3v To marry one’s sibling (incest).
limu₂ v To mistake someone for someone else.
limu-mù 1adj Cuddly, as baby 2v To fondle a baby.