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būhul
1
An enemy of a village; i.e., a person of another village.
2a
Wartime.
2b
For two or more hostile villages (actor muɴ- & theme) to engage in warfare against each other (loc ref).
Mumbubūhul: focus is on several people of two or more villages engaging in warfare. There may be two or more groups of antagonists with one or more village in each group.
For a village (actor mi'i-) to join in warfare with one or more other villages.
For a village (actor -um-; s actor maN-) to fight people (loc ref -on) of a hostile village with appropriate weapons (inst i-, paN-).
pamūhul; mamūhul
Traditionally, warfare was potentially engaged in with any village with which there was not a truce agreement, bayaw. Warfare was caused by disputes over territorial boundaries or use of public forests. Rampant and serious theft or more trivial matters could finally result in warfare. The heads of enemies killed in battle were taken, hewat, and sometimes hands and/or feet, pūtel, and ceremonies involving these body parts performed, ha'dol.
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