pi21to cover, to put an unripe fruit under a cover so that it ripens quicker; to put grains under a cover so that they germinate, to put sth under a cover for fermentation (restr.) to close one’s hand (with something in it that no other person should grap, cf. lam-piinta n.pl.), to hold sth. in one’s closed handNgoa zaangade a pi jinla ate nga chim kpaama jinla.Take this millet and put it under a cover today (for germination) so that it becomes malt (germinated millet) today.2to initiate sb. as a grave-digger by locking him up (“covering” him) in a grave with a dead person for some time, to ordain a gravediggerTama yeni nidoa bisanga miena a pi kama.All the boys of our house have been initiated as grave-diggers.Nuruwa a pi ka vayaam.The man was ordained as a gravedigger (lit. ...covered the gravediggers’ medicine)
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