A name by which someone or something is identified.
Some common designations: 1) People: Identified by a given name. If a further designation is needed to distinguish between two people with the same name, a man or unmarried woman is identified as the son or daughter of another man:
Anoblon an hina' Illammung.
Anoblon the son of Illammung.
A married woman is commonly identified, using a prefix iɴ-, as someone's wife: hi Indūyuh an inHiddum Indūyuh, the wife of Hiddum. Many Ifugaos have adopted the Christian system of name designation using, as family name, the name of a father or grandfather. 2) Spirits: Names are given to classes and sub-classes and, in some cases, to individual spirits. 3) Geographic divisions: Traditionally, the largest division was the village. These are sub-divided, each division with a name, as follows: a. A large housing cluster located somewhat central to the village; in Batad, called Babluy. b. Small housing clusters, higib, which are divisions of the houses of the village. c. Agricultural sub-districts of pond fields, pingngit 2. If a small housing cluster is adjacent to or within the sub-district, they are both called by the same name. d. Other geographic sub-divisions within the village. All other land areas are traditionally sub-divided and named. They include caneland, mabilāu, grassland, mapulun, private forests, pinūgu, public forests, inalāhan, and upland fields, ūma. Divisions and name designations, however, do not necessarily follow the boundaries of these land types. 4) Flora and fauna: Many names, especially of plants are generic with names of specific varieties. See, e.g., names for varieties of sweet potato, Appendix 8 and rice, Appendix 7,