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songsong 1v fill or plug as a tooth or a small hole 2clog, as a toilet 3stuff something into an opening to occlude it, such as to stuff leaves into the top of a bamboo water pole or a fish trap. Igsongsong ka du’t mundù. Use the camote leaves to cover the water tube. Songsongon ka sakaru. Plug [Cover??] the waterpole.
songug n Long feelers or antennae as on a shrimp.
songut 1v To sniffle. 2To sniff back mucus.
son-ad v To put, set upon something (esp. cooking pot on the hearth).
sondad v Igsondad ki to bayadbayad it’s difficult for us.. see: igbogoy, igdatong, igbo-ot, igpanungayow ??.
sondit 1v To confront. Ka ogsondit, sikan ka og-ogot. Kagi to inoy to, "Maniò to warò now buligi ka amoy now?" The word confront means to scold. The mother says, “Why didn't you-pl. help your father?” Ka otow, ogsonditan din ka anak din no lukos to konò ogbulig to ogtalabau to kamot dan. [with intent to cause someone to regret or be sorry for conduct so that they will change their behavior.] see fr.: tangkò 5. 2To regret. see: solsol ??.
soning n A woman’s cloth bag worn on the back (kabil).
sonob 1v To swim underwater. Ka otow no manonob, og-opuk ka ogsonob to woig no ogpamanghò to to ngalap. As for people who swim underwater, [they] hold their breath as they swim underwater as they search for fish. osyn: tanob. 2v general: to immerse in water; swim underwater 3specific: trial by river water; to spear fish by swimming underwater. 4Nakasonob ka ubal. The monkey fell in the water. 5To baptize.
sonson 1v Push together, push aside. see fr.: kois 1. 2to crowd; to push along or aside [as to roll up sleeves or trousers legs.] 3(Fig) To push all of the blame onto one person
sonut To be shrivelled from lack of sun and/or moisture, at harvest (beans, rice, millet). Ogsonut ka homoy. The rice will shrivel, dry up.
sop-ang n A branch; to branch out.
sopa n Shoots of plants, as of banana
sopang v To suffer a broken hip or thigh.
soping 1n Twin. 2v To give birth to twins. Du-on soping ni Duti. Ruthie has a twin. 3v To give birth to three or four children.
sopì 1n A hand of bananas. 2v To cut and get betelnut. 3Pelvic bone, sacroiliac
sopò 1v To chew. Ka alag, maporos ko ogsopo-on ta. The alag nut is astringent when we chew it. osyn: po-pò₂ 1. 2Sopa-a nu ka bulung. Chew the medicine.
sopukon Having a cough not due to any evident illness. Sopukon si Amasig. Amasig has a cough.
sorop 1v To go inside, as a hole, tunnel or cavern. Ko ogsorop, oghun-a ka ulu to ulod no ogtagù to lugì. When it goes inside, the head of the snake enters the hole first. Ko ogsorop ki to sinoropan, du-on ilag to kohuna-an ta. If we enter into a cavern, there will be light in front of us. 2deriv n Cavern. 3Sorop kow. Go inside. 4v Make something else go inside, as a burrow. Igsorop on kat bu-aya to tambaò. The crocodile forced him into an eel burrow. ??
sorò 1n tobacco 2n Wad of tobacco that is kept perched on the lip; to chew tobacco. 3v To use tobacco. 4v Anything which is eaten with the main dish Ogmangali ki atag, igsorò ta angkuan to ubal. We’ll dig sweet potatoes to eat with the monkey later on. [Such as meat, fish, or vegetables or even sugar or liquids added to give flavor are also included.; In the next example, the sweet potato is the main dish. The monkey is that which goes along with the sweet potato.]
sosolobon n A person’s chest.
sowsow 1v To wade through water; the sound of wading. 2General: fingers and toes; specific: toes
soy-ung gen: alap 1.1.
soysoy 1n Type of tulaang (story song) sung by spirit medium. 2A kind of short cogon grass.
su conj Because. Patabok nu ka losung su og-uranan. Put the mortar under the house lest it get rained on. Nakaluluud on su napogkot. She had to sit/ kneel ?? because she was crippled. Sugba-a nu ka homoy su baawon ta. Cook rice so that we’ll take some for lunch.
su-an 1n A digging stick. [A su-an can also be used as a lever to move an obect. However, the action of the su-an is to move a object by degrees. This contrasts with the action of alik which is used to lift. In the case of a su-an being used to lift, there seems to be some overlap of function.] 2n A sharpened stake which is used as a lever. Ogpakasaad ka sikan no kayu no su-an no ian a-alikoy. The [piece of] wood which is a lever, that is the thing used for leverage is put beneath [the log which one intends to move]. see: alik 1. 3v To dig by poking a stick at the ground.?? [DB says what you do in the ground with a su-an is bagdak because the verbal form means to move with a lever. In recent times, a su-an is sometimes made of steel for digging a canal or post hole, or a hole for an outhouse or throwing away garbage.]