A grass, weed; i.e., any small inedible herbaceous plant or grass.
Ranges in size from creeping grasses such as kumpay2 to tall clumps of tanglog grass up to a meter tall. Also included are numerous varieties of small bushes, young growth of taller vegetation such as arrow-grass canes, bilāu, and trees, āyiw, up to about a meter high. Some plants and grasses are desirable because of medicinal properties; some are used for construction, as thatch; others are weeds, having no value.
Grass and Weed Varieties
apīit
‘apīit grass’
balīli
‘pond field grass’
gūlun
‘coarse spear grass’
kumpay2
‘creeping grass’
lidyohon
‘lidyohon grass’
pulun 1
‘standing grass’
Grass and Weed Classification
agaw'aw 1
‘pond-field weeds’
bunhi1 1
‘upland field weed or grass’
lohang
‘second growth vegetation’
2
For an area such as a field (actor -um-) to become overgrown with weeds, as described above.
humlo'
-um-: humlo'
For an area (loc ref ma-an) to be weedy, as described above.
mahlo'an; mahol'an
ma-an: mahol'an, mahlo'an
3
For someone (agent muɴ-; s agent maN-) to apply a herb (theme), to an area of the body, a sickness, wound (loc ref -an).
paN-: panlo'; -an: hol'an; maN-: manlo'
For someone (agent) to use a particular plant or grass (inst i-, paN-) for applying a herbaceous plant or grass, as described above.
ehlo'; panlo'; humlo'; hol'an; manlo'
Used as a topical medicine for cuts, boils, burns, eye infection, goiter, snakebite, skin infections; also used internally as a purgative for worms.