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A sweet potato plant, Ipomoea batatas [Convol.], commonly called sweet potato.

Grown chiefly in upland fields and in dried pond fields. Consists of vines, lāgah 2a, and tubers, lapnay 1b.

lapnay 1

2a

Sweet potato vines and leaves.

Boiled and eaten as a side dish, mihda.

a'an 1b

2b

For a sweet potato plant (actor -um- & loc ref) to develop vines and leaves (theme).

2c

For someone (agent -um-) to plant an area, as an upland field, ūma (loc ref -an), with sweet potato vines and leaves (theme).

About thirty centimeter pieces of the tenderest portion of vine and leaves are used as cuttings. Vines are planted in pairs, about 10 cm. lying in a line. Each pair is spaced about 60 cm. from the next pair in the line. Lines are about one meter apart in good soil; nearer in poorer soil.

2d

For someone (agent muɴ-) to harvest sweet potato vines and leaves, for side-dish greens, mihda.

For someone (agent) to cut off sweet potato vines and leaves (theme -on) from a patch (loc ref -on) with a knife (inst i-, puɴ-).