Language Name goes here

1a

Bund plaster of a pond field, rounded over the top of the bund and extending down the inner surface, covering the hard-packed earth undersurface, tapig, and joining the basin floor, pānad.

This layer is made of mud, ideally clay without stones, kneaded into a soft mass. The layer is about 5 cm. thick at the top and 12 cm. at the base.

līta 1a

1b

For someone (agent maN-) to plaster a pond-field bund (loc ref -an) with bund plaster (theme) when building a new field or when repairing a dike.

mami'pi'; pami'pi'

For someone (agent) to use mud (inst i-, paN-) for bund plaster, as described above.

banong 2 līta 1b, 2

1c

Bund-repair season.

Nan būlan di Lūyana ya pi'pi' ad Batad.

During the month of Lūyana, it is bund-repair season in Batad.

This work follows the draining of the seedbeds and pond fields, batang, in preparation for planting seeds or transplanting seedlings.

2

For someone (agent muɴ-; s agent maN-) to pat a child (loc ref -on) to comfort him or her or to put him or her to sleep.

mami'pi'