A unit of a pond-field holding, consisting of a group of one or more inherited pond fields, located either contiguous or non-contiguous to each other.
Niwā'at nan udumnan payaw Dulīmay mu himbumanoh ti hiyah ne banoh amāna.
Some of Dulīmay's pond fields are scattered but they are a single pond-field holding because that is a legacy from his father.
For a description of measure phrase see Grammar Sketch 7.20.2.
A single holding is a group of one or more fields through a single inheritance source. Since inheritance is both patrilineal, i.e., through the father's line, and matrilineal, i.e., through the mother's line, one person may have from one to four holdings, rarely more. Strong cultural pressure is exerted to keep a single holding, himbumanoh, intact, even when fields are sold. In dividing field legacies among children, a single holding is never divided. Newly constructed fields may represent a single holding, thus given to one child, or more than one, thus distributed among two or more children at the discretion of the one who constructed the fields.