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1a

A taro plant, Colocasia esculenta [Arac], grown in either dry or wet fields.

Taro is a most useful plant, the various parts either eaten as a main course, a side dish, or used for pig feed. The following are varieties of taro: aggit'it, bal'ung, bangig, hapangngan, higay, hīwa', ti'lung, tu''og, uhīlap. Taro is grown in upland fields and flooded pond fields.

Parts of a Taro Plant
amulang	‘plant stalk’
apīpi	`flower and upper stalk.
ba'way 2	‘runner’
go'go'yang	‘upper plant stalk including leaves’
imbaluy di lā'at	‘developing plant (on the end of a runner)’
lātud	‘leaf’
lā'at 2a	‘plant stalk, including leaves’
ngādoh	‘upper rootstalk’
tugmuy	‘tuberous rootstalk (corm)’
ūpi	‘outer plant stalk’

1b

For someone (agent muɴ-) to harvest a taro plant (theme).

This includes pulling up the plant, washing it, cutting off the plant stalk section, lā'at 2b, for replanting and keeping the rootstalk, tugmuy, for food.

2a

A taro plant stalk, including the leaves.

amulang

labengngan 1

2b

For someone (agent) to cut off a taro plant stalk section (theme -on) from a taro plant (loc ref -on) with a knife, bolo (inst i-, puɴ-), to be used in planting.

The plant stalk is cut either from a mature plant, lā'at 1a, or from a developing plant, imbaluy di lā'at.

2c

For someone (agent) to dry-plant a taro plant stalk (theme), in an upland field, ūma (loc ref -an), with a suitable instrument, as a digging trowel, dohag (inst i-).

The developing center leaf, tūbu, plant stalk, amulang, and upper rootstalk, ngādoh, is planted. See description under labu'.

For someone (agent) to use a particular taro plant stalk (inst i-) for dry-planting a taro plant stalk, as described above.

labu' tamong 2