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li-on v 1To heed an order/custom as groom who must return home after his wedding. Ogli-on; oghondiò [ka nokogtu-on] to inoy rin. The groom heeds the custom/warning; he returns to his mother [following the marriage ceremony]. [In the Ata Manobo culture, it is deemed important that the newly married groom return his soul to his home place.] 2To heed a warning. Ka otow no ogligkat on ka oghondiò to kamot din no nigbottolbottol ka limukon ka nigkutol, warò pad sikandin nigparagas nighipanow diò to kamot din su nigli-on din pad ka limukon. The person who was leaving to go to his field when he was called on with a bad omen by the dove who called, he did not continue to go to his field because he heeded the dove.
li-ot 1v To go in and out as jeeps in traffic or squeeze past others as people trying to get through a crowd. 2To go back and forth, to weave in and out Ko moon-ing ka mgo otow, ogpakapanli-otli-ot ki ka ogbayò. When there are many people, we have to squeeze in and out to get by. [as jeeps weaving in and out of traffic, or people squeezing in and out or around others in a crowd.]
li-us 1n Long seed bead (same as ulibon). 2v To find the people absent when you visit. 3Nakali-us ka magaliug to wà ki kai’t baoy. The visitors came and found us absent from the house. Nali-usan now si Minol. Minor found you absent from here.
liag v Desire, want.
lialia 1n A large round cicada that makes a noise in the month when fields are cleared (March); locusts. 2kind of cicada. see: ngoyngoy.
liang see fr.: alat. 1n A bamboo woven basket. [Kinds of liang: sinul-ad, agumon, sili-an.] 2what a basket is made of
lias see fr.: kundab 2.
liason 1n A cowardly person. Ka otow no konò og-atu, ognanganan to otow no mabulut to, “Liason ka na-an.” A person who doesn’t fight back, will be called, cowderdly by a person who is fierce, “You are actually cowardly.”; A person who is fierce will call a person cowardly who doesnt fight back. [he will say] “You are actually a coward.” see fr.: kundab 2. 2adj A person who is terrified; or paniced. Ka liason, lagboy ogkahallok. Songo ogsoloran to busow. A person who is terrified is very much afraid. He also has been entered by an evil spirit. [It is said that his condition may be due to the presence of an evil spirit.] see: kundabon. 3v To be terrified; panic. [This condition is also attributed to possession by an evil spirit.]
liba-libà v To converse.
libak v To wonder about.
libat v To roll eyes; cross-eyed.
libaw n A kind of tobacco.
libod phr.: libod no kodak. 1v To wrap around, as a snake might wrap itself around a branch. see fr.: bodbod 1; see fr.: kodkod 1; see fr.: bolodbod. 2v To wrap something around an object (as tape on a taperecorder, or film of a camera); to wind as thread onto a spool. 3n Type of trap in which multiple loops are made of rattan on the trunk of a papaya tree and attached to a long rattan trigger. When a monkey climbs the tree for fruit, he is caught and tighly encircled by all these loops so he cannot wriggle free. 3.1n Something that entwines such as film of a camera or tape of a tape recorder. Ka igtagù no tiip, songo libod dod ka ngaran. That which is placed in a tape [recorder] is also called [something] that entwines. Purutia ka libod no igtagù ku to kodak. Pick up the film which I will put inside the camera. 4 5n Something around which something is wrapped; or wound such as a spool, as for thread.
libod no kodak phr. of: libod. Film.
libong v 1To return. 2To repeatedly come back Ungod oglibonglibong taman to ogkapurut din ka ogbuyu-on din He keeps coming back until he can obtain that which he is requesting. [This word is used for returning to some place other than one's home or place from which he started. In the following example, the reduplication of the word oglibonglibong means to “repeatedly come back”. However, in English, to “keep coming back” already means “repeatedly” so it would be redundant to say, “keep repeatedly coming back”.] 3to have someone go back for something
libu₁ 1n Thousand. 2v Many people but no one with authority.??
libu₂ v Many people but no one with authority.??
libuas 1v To go outside, to come out of; outside. 2n Outside, as of a house or yard.
libulung 1v To gather together. Tibò oglibulung to sagboka no baloy ka ogpasalamat to Magbobo-ot. All will gather together at one house who will offer thanks to God. see fr.: bulus₂ 2. 2gathering together Ko ogpitow ki to pitsa to bulan, awoson no og-indanan ta ka liwak to warò ogpakabalabag oyow ogkatuman to poglibulung. When we look at the date of a month, we need to reserve a time when there is nothing which will conflict (lit go crosswise) so that the gathering together will happen. 3v A meeing place. Ko diò ki to kalibulunganan, ogpokog-iom-iom ki. When we are at a meeting place, we have to smile at each other. 4
libuson adj Round, curved, lump, whole piece. Oglibuson. It will lump.
libut 1v go around osyn: ligot 5; see fr.: ligot 7. 2To go around or encircle. Nakalibut ka ilis to palatu. The edge encircles the plate. 3v To around [such as the hand of a clock or a rotating light on a pole] osyn: ligot 1.
libut-libut see fr.: balikù 3.
libù adj Deceptive; tricky Ka otow no oghimu to maro-ot ka warò nakasalò kandin, sikan ka malibu-libù no otow. The person who makes someone else l[ook] bad who didn't do anything wrong to him, that is a deceptive person. see: ubatan; see: gawoy 2.
lidlid v To go around the outside of something.
lig-ot 1adj Narrow; tight. 2To squeeze things together to make them fit tightly.