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battan
1
A dividing object between two other objects, locations, people or groups of objects, locations, people.
Nan battan di Ti''id hi Babluy, ya ginnaw.
The dividing object of Ti''id and Babluy is a brook.
2
For someone or something (agent muɴ- & theme) to divide two other things, people, or groups of things or people (loc ref) by being between them.
Numbattan nan wangwang hinan nunhituwan da Bāyaw ay Wīgan.
The river divides where Bāyaw and Wīgan live.
For someone (agent) to divide two objects or people (loc ref -an) into two groups with a dividing object (theme), as described above.
pamattan; mamattan
Binattanan Bāyaw din nun'ipatang an bilāu ta adi milāmut nan adodokkoy hinan hehe'he'dod.
Bāyaw divided the many arrow-grass canes he put down with a dividing object so that the long ones would not be mixed with the short ones.
For someone (agent) to use something, as a piece of wood, cane, stone (inst i-, paN-) for a dividing object, as described above.
3
For someone (agent muɴ-) to act as go-between, as in representing one wronged, one who is trying to collect a debt, who is arranging a marriage for his son or himself, one who wishes to buy or sell a pond field.
ālun 2
4
For someone (agent) to interject an activity (theme i-) into another activity (loc ref -an); i.e., perform an interjected activity at a convenient time while doing something else.
Ibattan'un manāmuh nan hanggapmun napa''i ti do'ol di tāmu' at adīa' umiyahup.
I will interject working on your broken bolo (into other work) because I have much work and so don't be in a hurry.
Ibattabattan: focus is on an activity broken into segments and interspersed into another activity. Battabattanom: focus is on an activity interspersed with several segments of another activity.
Binattabattanan Dillag nan tāmuna ti gun immuy numbā'i.
Dillag interspersed his work because he was always going to perform traditional religious rituals.
Binattabattanan han nundogoh an mangan.
The sick person interspersed (his) eating (with times of rest).
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