For someone (agent maN-) to seek an omen-bird portent, to divine if a desired endeavor will or will not be successful.
Inīdaw din tatāguh penghāna ya unda ete''an mumpayaw ta mi'id al'alin dida.
The people of old sought an omen-bird omen before building a pond field so that nothing unfortunate would happen to them.
For someone (agent muɴ-; s agent maN-) to secure a favorable or unfavorable omen (theme -on) from an omen bird.
Theme is rarely expressed.
Inīdaw Ballag an immuy ad Kiyāngan at mi'id al'alin hiya.
Ballug who went to Kiangan secured (a favorable omen) from an omen bird and so nothing happened to him.
The omen bird provides an omen, either good or bad, by its call, labuy, obat, or its behavior, bāhut. Typical activities for which an omen is sought: hunting wild pigs or deer; travelling outside one's village area to earn money, selling valuable possessions such as a gong or jar; going on a headhunting trip, ngāyaw, or to war, būhul; making a new pond field or upland field.
For someone (agent) to use an activity, an object involved in an activity, as an upland field, a pond field (inst i-) as the cause of seeking an omen-bird portent.