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limuan v To be affected by having encountered an evil spirit such as a long-haired spirit that lives in the water. see fr.: agpu-unan 1; see: agpu-unan 1; see fr.: agpu-unan 2; see: gamowgamow; see: haboy.
limud phr.: nalimud no otow. v 1Gather together. see fr.: bulus₂ 2; see fr.: andung, og=, nig= 1. 2To stack up together; pile up; make many.
limukon 1n A dove. 2Be affected by dove’s call. 3A kind of sugarcane.
limulan n Kind of edible tree fruit.
limun n Camote leaves. Palimunon ku. I’ll let the camotes leaf out.
limuron see fr.: kois 1.
limusong 1n Perspiration. 2v To perspire. Pinanglimusongon so suu. Their fingernails were sweating.
lingawan see fr.: salilung.
lingawlingaw n Harmonica.
linggon n Plain black cloth (used to make blouses).
linggot v To meander, circle.
lingì v 1To look back over one’s shoulder; turn head. 2To look back and forth; turn one's head back and forth. 3Get one’s attention (as by getting a person to turn one's head).
lingkit n Tiny bell.
lingkosu cf: ambotut 1. v To leap as a dog would leap into the air to catch something. see fr.: ambotut 1.
lingkosu, og=, nig= v To leap, as a dog leaping for an object. see: ambutut 1.
lingkuin v To shake drying grain to the center of a mat.
lingkus v to complete, or be completed, as a group Nalingkus dan on to nalimud. They have been gathered together as a complete unit. [If someone visits all the leaders under his jurisdiction, Oglaaron din. “He will bring them together”. To accomplish this, ogtuuyon din “He will stop by and pick up each one in turn...” bringing each one with him until they are all brought together at the final destination where they are, Nalingkus dan on to nalimud, that is the group is complete [and] gathered together. (DB said not necessarily every leader present but every area represented.)]
lingkut n Chaff of tiny broken chips of rice usually given to chickens.
lingow 1v To forget. 2v to put something out of one's mind, that is to deliberately “forget”. Ogpalingowlingow rò du-on; konò din ogsagmanon. he just [purposely] forgets it; he doesn't pay attention to it. 3To stay in one house when visiting and not go around to various houses.
lingut v 1To encircle; to finger a kobbiung. 2To be surrounded. Ko du-on otow no nakasalò no ogdakopon ta, ogkagi ki to, “Konò kad og-atu su no-upul kad on no nalingutan kad on.” If there is a person who has a fault/sin whom we are arresting, we say, “Don't resist because you have no recourse because you are surrounded.”
linanoy v To preserve raw meat by placing in a bamboo tube.
linas n Bark, of tree, used in making lukung, basung, or walls of house. Ko ogkuò ki to ig-alabat to baloy no linas to langilan, ogdokdokon ta ka laplap din oyow oglokò. When we get the bark of the langilan [tree] to wall a house, we pound its outer layer (lit. skin) so that it will come loose. [Bark is used in making lukung, basung or walls of a house. The bark of some trees as the dangolog is too thick so only the outside is stripped away and only the inner layer of bark is used. (The laplap “outside layer”of the tree is linas.); (dangolog tree)] see fr.: laplap 2; see fr.: akob 1; see: laplap 1.
linatungan n Woven abaca trousers; abaca blanket.
linaw adj Peaceful, free from trouble.
lindog v To be slanted or leaning. Ogkalindog on ka goinawa ran. Their breath was ??. (meaning of idiom uncertain).