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da'puh
1a
The boundary of something, as an agricultural district, a field, a housing cluster, a village; the end part of something which one arrives at when involved with that object, as the peak of a roof in laying thatch; the end of a trail in walking or constructing; a seam in sewing; a windrow of grass in burning; the last of a series of objects placed more-or-less in a row, as foundation stones.
Hiyah te da'puh di bītu hi gun'u inyamma'amma.
This is the last of the pit traps that I have been making.
1b
For someone (agent & theme mi-) to move to the boundary of a particular location (loc ref -on), as in walking, weeding an area, building a road.
2
The end of an event not regularly repeated, as a story, ritual prayer, song, meeting; of a cyclical event not repeated daily, with an end and hiatus before beginning again, as planting or harvest season, dry or wet season, a lunar month.
For a description of the termination of regularly repeated events, those which reach a peak or that are a development stage, see lopah 2.
For an event not regularly repeated, a cyclical event (actor -um- & theme) to come to an end, as described above.
For someone (agent) to finish an irregularly occurring activity (theme ipa-, pa-on) almost completed, as a song, ritual prayer, harvesting; an object involved in an irregularly occurring activity almost completed, as a roof in thatching, a stone wall in building.
De an magadyuh an ipada'puhda nan pi'pi' hi payaw Lim'ang.
See, they are almost finishing up the bund plaster in Lim'ang's pond field.
The grammatical distribution of these verb forms is the same as that described for amin 1. For a description of irregularly occurring activities see amin 1.
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