For darkness, an area, object (patient ma-) to be bright with starlight.
Commonly used without an expressed patient; used to express the general brightness of night when stars but not the moon are shining.
Mapahīlaw ad a''u ti mapatal an mi'id di būnut ad dāya ya mamittuwan goh.
It was bright with starlight last night because it was bright in that there were no clouds in the sky and it was also starry.