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lopah
1
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.
2
For someone (agent muɴ-) to finish an activity (theme i-, -on), occurring either regularly or irregularly with the optional use of a suitable instrument (inst puɴ-), as eating, sleeping, singing, cleaning a field, working, planting or harvesting rice; to finish an object (theme i-, -on) involved in an activity, as thatch in being thatched, a stone wall in being constructed, bund plaster being put on a dike, food eaten, weeds weeded.
elpah; lempah; malpah
Mundenol hi Daplah ti lempahna din do'ol an ūtangna.
Daplah is happy because he finished (repaying) his large debt.
For a description of irregularly and regularly occurring activities, see gedah 2.
3
A last pounding of rice which is pounded two or three times.
Hiyah te lopah nan ibāyu tu'u at mun'eblay tu'u mahkay.
This is the last pounding of what we are pounding, so let's finally rest.
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