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alā'ag
1
A remuneration feast.
Inyuymi din ālun Balītu' ad Umbūlu ya in'inlum di pinaltidah alā'agmi.
We took the marriage bride-wealth payment of Balītu' (groom) to Cambulo and they butchered an extremely small pig for our remuneration feast.
Occasions for a remuneration feast: 1) Given to those who have carried a marriage bride-wealth payment, ālun, usually a large pig, to the father of the bride. These are usually all the able-bodied men from the housing cluster, hīgib, of the groom; 2) A feast at the end of a meeting for settling the payment of an expensive item such as a gong, pond field or wine jar; 3) Given to men who have gone to the forest to get poles for making a sugarcane press, hewagan, in preparation for sugarcane wine making day, hubul 2a.
2
For someone (agent -um-; s agent maN-) to prepare a remuneration feast (theme) for those participating in various events (loc ref -an), as described above.
For someone (agent) to use something as pigs, rice beer, rice (theme i-, paN-) in preparing a remuneration feast.
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