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1a

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

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

lāgah 1

1b

A sweet potato tuber, cooked or uncooked.

Second to rice, sweet potato tubers are the most valued staple food, tanud, in Batad. For all but the very rich, it is, however, the most common staple food eaten.

O''ongol nan lapnay hi ūmah Pannal ti maphod an lūta.

The sweet potato tubers in the upland fields of Pannal are very large because the soil is good.

lu'tu 1

mēme'

2a

A tuber of sweet potato, lapnay 1b, greater yam, ūbi 2, manioc, kāhuy 2, potato, patātas 2.

Nan lapnay di kāhoy ya adudukkoy ya ma'uktul di umudna.

A manioc tuber is very long and its skin is thick.

2b

For sweet potato, manioc, potato (actor -um- & loc ref) to develop tubers (theme).

Agguy limmapnay nan lāgah hi ūma' ti un pa'itannom.

The sweet potato in my upland field have not developed tubers because they have just been planted.

lu'tu 2

2c

malapnay.

Extensively tubered, of sweet potatoes, greater yams, manioc, potatoes.

Malapnay nan kāhuy an mitanom hinan maphod an lūta.

Manioc planted in good soil will be extensively tubered.

Plants with Tubers
anayud	‘wild ubi’
bīla	‘elephant ear’
kāhuy 2	‘manioc’
lapnay 1a	‘sweet potato’
patātas 2	‘American potato’
ūbi	‘yam’

nalapnay

Fond of sweet potatoes.