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tānud
1
A staple food such as rice, hinamal, or sweet potatoes, lapnay.
2
For someone (agent; s agent maN-) to nourish someone or something (loc ref -an) with staple food (theme) provided regularly, as for a parent to nourish his or her child, a farmer his or her flocks.
panānud; manānud
Tanūdam han imbaluymu ta adi ma'ung'ung.
Nourish your child so she will not be skinny.
For someone (agent) to use a particular choice of food (inst i-, paN-) for nourishing with staple food, as described above.
3
For someone (actor -um-) to assume a feeding responsibility (theme) for someone or something (loc ref -an).
Refers to one who does not naturally or normally have such a responsibility, as a rich person who provides food for poor children, a man who feeds his neighbor's sow so he can have a share of the offspring when she gives birth.
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