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1

A contribution of items such as chickens, money, rice.

A contribution of rice or chickens may be given; e.g., to contribute to a meal eaten by a work party engaged in repairing an irrigation canal or meeting to make a peace pact. As a contribution when one has died, rice, rice beer or firewood may be given by members of the housing cluster, hīgib, to help feed those who come to pay respect to the dead person. Contributions to the poor are sometimes made; e.g., when a poor widow dies, as food during the time the person is in a death chair.

hāyup 1

inub'ub

adaw1 1 ub'ub1

2

For people, living things (actor & theme i-) to gather together (loc ref).

Inyāmungmih dolan Daplah an nunhahāpit hi pola' nan tibung.

We gathered (ourselves) together at Daplah's house to talk about the price of the wine jar.

For someone (agent maN-, muɴ-) to gather together people, things, (theme -on) with or without a suitable instrument (inst paN-), as to rake debris into a pile, collect water by building a mud dam, call people together.

Nan nangīnah tibung ya un hay ināmung nan tutūlang'uh pihhu hi bādangda.

What was used to buy the wine jar was what my relatives gathered together of money as their help.

For someone (agent & inst) to bring people, things, (theme i-) to a single location, as for several people each to bring rice to one house for a feast, for a man to bring his firewood home in several trips.

hāyup 2

āpun

gāup tapyung 1

3a

A cohabitation-determining omen chicken, used in ritual prayers to divine the disposition of supernatural forces regarding a couple's living together.

Ibā'iday +āmung nan mun'ihāwa hi mā'et ta tigondah un maphod di akbun nan manu' at munhitūdah ohay baluy.

They will use the cohabitation-determining omen chicken of the (couple) who will marry for performing the traditional religious ceremony tomorrow to see if the bile of the chicken is good and so (the couple) will live together in one house.

Divination is by inspecting the bile of the chicken. If necessary, two or three attempts are made to find a good bile, ammu, spacing sacrifices one or two months apart and, if all biles are bad, a final attempt may be made by sacrificing a pig, ālun. Usually if the bile of the pig is not good this terminates attempts to find a good omen and the couple do not continue their marriage. An exception to this is that if, before this time, the girl becomes pregnant, the couple will almost always live together as husband and wife despite the bad omen which indicates that problems lie ahead.

3b

For a husband and wife (agent muɴ-) to cohabit.