Appendices 26 – 30
10/16/02—9/10/03
APPENDICES 26 - 30
Appendix 26: Fruits (See also Appendix 9.3)
amas
A variety of banana, small and sweet.
bisol
A very tart, edible, orange fruit the size of a thumb that grows in clusters on a wild bush.
dnulon
A variety of banana.
lanas
Pineapple.
lefò
Coconut.
legwi
Very sour fruit of a certain kind of rattan.
lenden
Native pineapple.
lunay1
Pili nut.
segiten
Watermelon.
soging
Banana, generic.
tantô
Edible berry of a shrub.
tekdis
A small, juicy, sour fruit that is white, pink or reddish skinned; its seeds are very bitter.
Appendix 27: Animals
Appendix 27.1: Domestic animals
bew
Domestic water buffalo. Shortened form of klembew ‘carabao’.
béntéy
Big old bull with long horns.
blek
Boar, male pig.
gansà
Goose.
intì
Duck, generic.
klembew
Carabao.
kukù
Cat.
kudà
Horse.
longo
Young male cat.
loug1
Mature male cat.
mósól
Rooster.
ogong
Sow, female pig.
ohu
Dog.
onuk
Fowl, generic.
safì
Domestic cow; steer.
sdô
Domestic pig, generic.
sdô balay
Domestic pig.
sdô blek
Boar.
tubid
Domestic sheep having long wool.
ubiha
Domestic sheep.
ufu1
Female fowl, hen.
Appendix 27.2: Wild animals
bal1
Monkey.
bolos
Common palm civet cat. A long-bodied, short-legged, catlike carnivorous animal.
efeng
Female monkey.
iwas
Monkey, generic.
kusing
Philippine tree squirrel.
leblab
Wild boar.
mal
Tarsier.
sdô bnes
Wild pig.
sledeng
Spotted sambar deer.
tama
Male monkey.
ten-galu
Western Mindanao pygmy squirrel.
ten-glu
Pygmy squirrel.
tenlus
Female deer.
tenggalung
Malay civet or tangalong civet, fox-like animal.
tindlu
Philippine pygmy squirrel.
uhu
Mouse deer, generic.
Appendix 28: Bats
kebeg
Greater Philippine short-nosed or dog-faced fruit bat.
kefnit
Philippine dawn bat or cave bat.
kefnit nongu
Geoffroy’s rousette or russet flying fox.
kefnit ngel
Greater Philippine short-nosed or dog-faced fruit bat.
kesondoy
Temminck’s yellow bat.
kmedek
Small long-tongued fruit bat.
telegbeng
Philippine dawn bat.
ubes
Malay false vampire bat.
Appendix 29: Rodents
bninsil
A variety of small mice known as Norway rat.
fólbul
Common Philippine field rat.
hesob
Negros small field rat.
klungoy
Mindanao tree shrew.
nam2
Southern Philippines musk or house shrew.
tobod
Negros true white-toothed shrew.
ungé
Rat, mouse (generic).
ungé lami
Philippine chestnut house mouse.
Appendix 30: Frogs
bikol
Tadpole.
fak
Frog, generic.
fak basak
‘frog of the irrigated rice fields’.
fak bnutél
‘frog that has warts’ (i.e., a toad), also known as Hawaiian frog.
fak sélél
‘Frog of sélél ’ (i.e., a certain star flashing red that appears in January; these frogs appear at the same time. Their throat and stomach are a reddish color.)
fak tahu
‘The true frog’ (i.e., the female of the largest species of frog, brown with a mottled stomach, found in holes of rocks or in grasses along rivers; the male is called myou, and is the largest of all frogs.)
goson
Tree frog, a long, slender, small brown frog with a whitish stomach.
kegot
Small frog found in wet rice paddies and along small streams.
klaya
Tadpole that has developed its four legs but still retains its tail.
ksidung
Bullfrog, a brownish-colored frog with a short body, a big stomach and horns over its eyes.
myou
Bullfrog.
sobò
A type of small frog.
sobò bun
A small but very fat spotted frog used for bait, found in holes near springs of water.
tala
A light-colored, medium-sized frog that has a back that feels sticky to the touch. Polliwog, tadpole.
téték
Type of edible frog.
téték naw
The smallest of all frogs, green in color, often seen sitting on leaves or roots along rivers. Edible.
téték sol
A little larger than téték naw , black in color with an offensive odor, often seen sitting on rocks in rivers.
tming
A green tree frog, with long legs, large eyes and fingers almost like a human’s.
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