For someone (agent muɴ, -um-; s agent maN-) to interrogate litigants (loc ref -on), in a dispute, commonly an accused suspected of wrongdoing, with the intent of either establishing guilt or persuading an offender to admit the guilt when it is clearly known.
manumalya
Dengngol'u din nahumalyāan da Innāwan ay Limāngan ya inābak Innāwan hi Limāngan.
I heard the interrogation of Innāwan and Limāngan and Innāwan defeated Limāngan.
For a neutral party and litigants in a dispute (agent) to discuss an offense, an object involved in a dispute (theme i-) by a process of interrogation, as described below.
Inhumalyādah ad ugga din na'ākaw an gangha ya mi'id hulbīna ti mi'id ihtīgu.
They discussed by interrogation the gong that was stolen and it was useless because there was no witness.
Traditionally interrogation of one accused of a minor offense was first attempted by a wise person of the accused's housing cluster, hīgib, or a nearby cluster. Such offenses included cursing, slander, īdut, theft of small items, līmun, assault without major injury. When minor offenses and disputes could not otherwise be settled, and when major disputes and offenses were involved, an experienced go-between of the village, mun'ālun, was called. Major disputes and offenses include adultery, lugtap, murder, patoy, disputes over boundaries of pond fields, payment of expensive items, as wine jars, fields, gongs. These interrogative functions are currently handled by municipal, provincial and federal officials appointed or elected for such purposes, such as a village captain, kapitan, village councilman, kanselman, a municipal councilman, kundihal, mayor, mayol, police, pulis, soldiers, tindālu. See also pānuh, to adjudge a dispute.