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1a

The last of objects more-or-less in a row; of objects or activities involved over a period of time; of something measured quantitatively, as food, rice, water.

Angūnuha' an nangan.

I was the last one to eat.

Hiyah te angūnuh di boto'.

This is the last (day) of harvest.

Activities occurring last are expressed as nouns: ba'i `ritual prayer', bogay `transplanting season', kanta `song', hu'lay `spading activity', pi'pi' `dike repair', uma `making an upland field'.

unghiw 1a

ūput 1

1b

For someone (agent) to let someone, something, an event (theme i-) be last; of objects placed more-or-less in a row; of objects or activities involved over a period of time, as described above.

Awni ta un'u iyangūnuh han patāmun Bukkāhan ti do'ol di udumnah tamūa'.

Wait, I will let what Bukkāhan is having done be last because I have other work.

unghiw 1b

2

For someone (agent muɴ-; s agent maN-) to finish up an irregularly occurring activity almost completed, an object involved in an activity almost completed (theme -on), as a roof in thatching; a stone wall in building.

Inflected form occurs as a sentence comment head and is followed in the sentence by 1) a noun as topic, either an event or object: hu'lay `spading activity', atap `roof thatch'.

Inangūnuh Bukkid din +āla' an tamūana.

Bukkid finished the irrigation canal which he has been working on;

2) by an and a verb:

Angunūhon Puhwi' an iyamma din da'da' an agguy nalpah ad ugga.

Puhwi' will finish making the flagstones that were not finished yesterday.

Objects closely related to activities need no expansion for the activities to be understood: atap `roof thatch' (activity is thatching), pi'pi' `bund plaster' (activity is plastering a bund), tapeng `stone wall' (activity is building a stone wall).

Awnid angunūhon Limāngan nan bā'ina ya unyu golton nan manu'.

Wait until Limāngan finishes up his ritual prayer before you kill the chicken.

Activities not obviously involved with objects must be made explicit by context:

Inangūnuh Lu'mag nan baluy an hinigīdan.

Lu'mag finished up the house in sweeping (it).

Reference is to irregularly occurring activities such as a song, ritual prayer, spading a field; or to cyclical events not repeated daily, as planting or harvesting rice. For a description of regularly occurring activities, see lopah 3.

unghiw 2

amin 1 da'puh 2 gedah 2 gibbuh 2 gulbud he'nad 1 lopah 2 pogpog 3 upuh 1 ūput 2

3

For someone, something (actor -um-; s actor maN-) to deplete a supply of something (patient -on), as for a lizard to deplete a flock of chickens; rats, crops; people, a supply of rice; fire, a stack of firewood.

Inangūnuh din nuwang Ngenhen an nun'a'an din pāguy'uh payaw.

Ngenhen's carabao exhausted my rice in the pond field, eating it completely.

amin 2

po'lah

unghiw 3

upuh 2

ūput 3