For someone (actor -um- & theme; s actor maN- & theme) to play animatedly with someone or something (loc ref -on).
To play with someone or something implies that the one with whom or with which one plays is a passive player and the agent is an aggressive player, as when playing with a ball, bola, a top, bogwat, a top spear, tammaw, a cat or dog, or as when a boy plays with a reticent girl.
Some Animated Games
agwit |
‘body wrestling’ |
apput |
‘relay race’ |
banbannig |
‘tag’ |
bōla |
‘ball’ |
hanggul |
‘arm wrestling’ |
hinhinnup |
‘hide-and-seek’ |
kellēkel |
‘leg wrestling’ |
kulhi |
‘hand wrestling’ |
pīku |
‘hopscotch’ |
pinu''it |
‘tops’ |
po'po''oy |
‘hide-the-rock’ |
tammaw |
‘play-spearing’ |