lasi1n.gumsyang tinëgdangan yang isi ta yay lasi,Durug buyu yang lasi na indi ra pagnisnis.His gums are very smelly because he no longer scrubs them (with-the-husk-of-betel-nut. , 2v.to-wipe-smelliness-of-the-gums-onto-the-nose of childrenNag̓alalasiyan mu yang mga mamula.You are wiping the smelliness of your gums onto the children.Cultural Background: In the past, the older people did not bother to keep their teeth clean and so their gums would become smelly. And whenever they felt that the younger generation needed to be brought down a peg, they would reach a finger inside their mouths to wipe off the smelliness and then force the besmirched finger into the noses of the children which forced them to smell it. This is the meaning of the verb nag̓alasiyan whose root is the word lasi.

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