uya-uy (sp. var. uyauy) 1comm. a grand wedding ceremony; only the wealthy can afford it, often done after some years of marriage. [The marriage ceremony includes celebrating with feasting and dancing, and particularly relates to those with aristocratic rank.] Kay bo uya-uy damdama. It’s just like the Uya-uy marriage feast. pt: holyat; Sim: Ballihung, got’ad. (sem. domains: 2.6.1 - Marriage.) 2intrans. to perform the grand wedding ceremony. Mahapul an umuya-uy ni-an ta ahi humagabi. It is necessary to perform the grand-wedding-ceremony before the bench-ceremony can be performed. Maid moy umuyauy ad uwani te naligat di biyag. Nobody can have the grand-wedding-ceremony today because life is hard. ‑um‑/‑imm‑. n. ph. Tokop di uya-uy
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yagayag trans. to sow seeds for transplanting, e.g. cabbage, eggplant. Iyagayag mu nan kolet nah pingkol. Sow the cabbage seeds in the rice-mulch-mounds. Yagayagam nan nagabyon hi pechay. Sow some pechay-cabbage seeds in the plot that is hoed. Munyagayag takuh kolet ta waday itanom taku nah garden. Let us sow cabbage seeds so that we will have some things to plant in our gardens. i‑/iN‑, ‑an/‑in‑ ‑an, muN‑/nuN‑. 3B Move and release object. (sem. domains: 6.2.3 - Plant a field.)
