A unit measure of an armload, of anything carried untied in both arms, on the shoulder, as firewood twigs, pāteng, arrow-grass canes, bilāu, spear grass, gūlun.
For a description of measure phrase see sec. 7.20.2.
2
For someone (agent muɴ-) to pick up or carry an armload of something (theme -on), as described above.
He''ay munlangah nan pāteng ti ma'īlog'a.
You be the one tocarrythearmload of twigs because you are mature, (i.e., a grown person).
To signal the durative aspect of `carry' the stem is reduplicated, see sec. 7.16.2.