For someone (patient ma-) to be first in time to do something, to be in a particular state.
mahhun
Occurs as part of a verb chain, see sec. 7.19.
Mahhun ayun umuy ad Manila ta un ami mangunud.
You be first in going to Manila and then we will follow.
ma-: mahhun
For someone or some animate being (agent -um-; s agent maN-) to do something (theme i-, -on) first, before doing something else, as to work before resting; or before someone else does something, as to make a bed before a child sleeps; let someone be first to do something before someone else does something, as to let children eat first before others.
hunnāon; hunnon; manunna
Humunna nan do''oh mihahābal.
The rats will (get) the tended crops first (before they are harvested).
Occurs as part of a verb chain, see sec. 7.19.
Ihunnāyun iyuy nan madamot.
You should take the heavy (load) first.
Hinunnan han babāi an ginabūtan nan payaw ya un mami'pi' nan linalā'i.
The woman did the weeding of the pond field first before the men plastered mud on the dike.
-um-: focus is on someone who does something first inappropriately or without invitation.
-on: hunnāon, hunnon