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ngūhu
1a
A child-mourning article which a parent wears to indicate that a child has died.
A man wears a rattan neck band; a woman wears a rattan neck and wrist bands and a hood falling down the back and held at the waist by a rattan cord. These articles are worn from a few days, for a child, up to a year for an adult.
bālu 1 galut 2a
1b
For someone (actor muɴ-) to grieve for one's son or daughter (loc ref -on) by wearing a mourning article, as described above, or by observing a period of mourning for a young child, pungpung.
If a person in mourning leaves his or her house, as when going to work, he or she must wear mourning articles.
For someone (agent) to use a particular article of clothing and/or rattan (inst i-, puɴ-) for a child-mourning article, as described above.
pungpung
bālu 2 galut 2b
A man's child-mourning name.
2a
An orphan; refers to a child with one or both parents deceased; a baby animal, bird or chicken whose mother is dead.
2b
For someone (actor -um- & patient) to become an orphan, as described under 2a.
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