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ābul
1
A scare-object, used to frighten away animals, birds, chickens, flies and the like.
Nan +ābul di budeng, ya nan niyamma an kinnāhu.
A scare-object for rice birds is a scarecrow made (for the purpose).
The following are scare-objects: a long arrow-grass cane, adukkoy an bilāu, held in the hand, used to frighten animals and chickens; a fly switch, wahīwah, used especially to keep flies away from a dead person; a stick person, kinnāhu, used as a scarecrow to frighten wild pigs and birds from pond or upland fields; a pond-field scare line, ulyun, or a line of hanging pendants, eblaw, hung up over ripening grain to scare away rice birds, budeng.
ulyun 1 wahīwah 1
2
For someone (agent muɴ-, -um-; s agent maN-) to frighten animals, birds, chickens, flies and the like (patient -on) with any effective instrument (inst i-, paN-), as described above.
Mun'ābul hi Aligūyun hinan budeng hi payaw.
Aligūyun frightens the rice birds in the pond field.
Animals, birds, chickens and flies are frightened by the use of a scare-object, ābul 1, by any other physical means or by shouting yōoy, ūus and the like.
tiwātiw ūus 1c wahīwah 2 yōoy 2
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