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attang
1
A center-load carrying pole for two, borne at either end, with a heavy load suspended at the center.
Maphod nan awayan hi attang di nundogoh.
Bamboo is good as a center-load carrying pole for one who is sick.
2
For two (agent muɴ-) to place or carry a heavy load (theme i-, -an) on the shoulders by center suspension with the optional use of a particular carrying pole (inst paN-), as to pick up or carry a heavy log; a load suspended from a center-load carrying pole, as a person in a blanket, a stone tied to the pole.
To signal the durative aspect of `carry' the stem is reduplicated, see sec. 7.16.2.
Inya'attang nan linalā'i nan madamot an āyiw.
The men carried the heavy log on (their) shoulders by center suspension.
abba, Methods of Holding,
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