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baluy
1
A permanent shelter; a generic term for a structure with a four-pitch roof, hā'a, with foundation posts, tū'ud, and usually inherited.
For a list of temporary shelters, see table under ābung.
Permanent Shelters
ālang ‘granary’
baluy 2a ‘traditional house’
inappal ‘poor-man's traditional house’
kaban, kinallob ‘house sepulcher’
kamalin ‘western-style house’
2a
A traditional house; i.e., of traditional design with a four-pitch roof, hā'a, and built on foundation piles, tū'ud.
Nan baluy ya hay nahamad an āyiw di miyamma.
As for a traditional house, it is made of solid wood.
A typical house has a floor space from about 2.2 by 2.8 m. to 2.8 by 3.4 m., with the shorter sides at the front and back. The house interior is a single room which serves as a place to cook food, eat, and sleep. It serves as the place for performing several religious activities, bā'i. It is also used as a storage area for grains and vegetables such as beans, sweet potatoes, corn, millet and various vegetable seeds. Rice bundles are stored in the attic. The house is built on foundation piles, with the floor level, about 155 - 160 cm. above the ground. This provides a sheltered space under the house for purposes similar to an open room or balcony. Here social and some religious activities are carried on. It is also used as a place for cooking, eating and sleeping during hot weather and for storing lumber, hanging chicken baskets, and the like. Built off the ground with rat guards, lībong, it protects the house against rat infestation. A house is pegged together with tapered dowel pegs, pāheng. This allows the house to give during strong winds without breaking apart. It also allows a house to be disassembled and transferred to other locations. The roof is transported, a single side, hinhā'a, at a time, or one side in two or three sections. All other parts are completely disassembled. House moving allows an owner to move nearer to his and/or her pond fields when necessary. Newly married couples usually desire to live in a village separate from parents and siblings and houses are often moved for this reason. They are also moved to avoid continual sickness or death in a family or when sold to new owners.
baluy 1, Permanent Shelters, banoh 2a, Legacies,
2b
For someone (agent; s agent mangi-) to use a particular house (inst i-) for his traditional house.
Hi Bukkāhan mangibaluy hinan inyamman amāna.
Bukkāhan will use what his father made as (his) traditional house.
2c
A measure of a houseful of rice bundles.
Himbaluy di ma'ālah pāguy hinan payaw han adangyan.
The rice harvested in the fields of the rich person is a houseful.
For a description of measure phrase see sec.7.20.2.
One houseful fills the attic, palan, as well as the house proper of a traditional house, baluy 2a. When the house is filled with rice bundles, occupants transfer to a smaller house kept for this purpose.
3
A house interior; i.e., the interior of any permanent shelter, baluy 1.
Adīyu ongolon nan apuy hi dola ti umabūub hi baluy.
Don't make the fire larger under the house because it will smoke the house interior.
For a description of the use of a house interior, see 2a.
4
For a man and woman (actor -um- & theme) to live together as husband and wife.
Bumaluy da Huwan ay Kalmen ad ugwan an tawon ti pa''ihāwada.
Juan and Carmen will live together as husband and wife this year because they have just married.
A husband and wife.
One's child, nephew, niece; the offspring of a living being.
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