For a natural event (patient ma-) to be ended as a day, month, a storm, rain, dry or rainy season; one's growing period, the swelling of a wound.
malpah
Nalpah mahkay din ongol an udan at umuy tu'u muntāmu.
The heavy rain has finally ended and so we can go to work.
Used in reference to the end of cyclical natural events in which there is a hiatus between the end and beginning of the next event. Thus a day begins at daybreak, nabala'ādan, and ends with evening dusk, nunhīnag.
Umēetda nan nuntāmu ti nalpah di algaw at mahdom.
The people who have been working will go home because the day has ended and so it will be night.
A lunar month, būlan 2, begins with a waxing thread moon, nipāeng, and ends with a waning thread moon, ay kāweng. A traditional year has no absolute beginning or end. The reckoning of years is in reference to specific important events such as one's move to a new location or the death of a spouse.
Nalpah di hintawon hi nabalūan han lalā'i at mabalin mahkay an mumbentan.
One year has ended of the man's being a widower, and so finally he can remarry.