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hādang
1a
A sympathy gift given to someone whose near relative has died.
The gift is usually a handwoven skirt, talguy, loincloth, lendom, chicken, manu', or their equivalent in money. This gift obligates the mourning family to reciprocate in the future, giving a sympathy gift of equal value to the family of the giver when someone in that family dies.
1b
For someone (agent -um-) to give a bereaved person (loc ref -an) something (theme i-) for a sympathy gift, as described above.
panādang
For someone (agent) to use something (inst paN-) for a sympathy gift.
2
An exchange bereavement-meat-gift, given by a bereaved family to someone who has given them a sympathy gift, hādang 1a.
When wake meat, bū'al, is prepared, one or two butt portions, ulpu, are cut up and divided as exchange bereavement-meat-gifts.
wānah, Meat Shares,
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