matenek
Fish with sharp dorsal fins; something that is covered with thorns or
spikes.
Ang domang mga taw indi pamangan ta yan ang
matenek, pario ta babaloan.
Some people don't eat fish with
sharp
dorsal
fins
such as babaloan.
ma-
For a part of the body to be pierced by a thorn, or jabbed or
stuck by the sharp dorsal fin of a fish.
Panimpeng tang kakayo tenged natenek ta bantol-bantol nongapon.
My foot is swollen because it was pierced
by a
bantol-bantol thorn yesterday.
Indi napalatan mo ta osto tang tenek tang pa-di,
mateneka.
You didn't cut off the barbed fins of the catfish very well, you will
get jabbed.