Language Name goes here

1

For someone (actor; s actor maN-) to finish an irregularly occurring activity or object involved in such an activity (theme -on), as spading a field, a roof in thatching, a stone wall in building.

mangpuh; impuh; mapuh

The grammatical distribution of these verb forms is the same as that described for amin 1.

Ag'aga ya impuh din munhu'lay di tamūanda ti do'olda.

Those spading finished what they were working on quickly because there were many of them.

For a description of irregularly occurring activities, see amin 1.

ma-: mapuh; -on: upuhon; maN-: mangpuh: -iɴ-: impuh

amin 1

ūput 2

angūnuh 2 da'puh 2 he'nad 1 gedah 2 gibbuh 2 gulbud lopah 2 unghiw 2

2

For someone (actor -um-) to deplete a supply of something (patient -on), as for a lizard to deplete a flock of chickens; rats, crops; people, a supply of rice; fire, a stack of firewood.

-um-: umpuh; -iɴ-: impuh

umpuh

amin 2

angūnuh 3

po'lah

unghiw 3

ūput 3

3a

Scrapings, resulting from using a knife, as described below.

3b

For someone (agent muɴ-; s agent maN-) to scrape skin (theme) from something (loc ref -an) with a knife (inst i-, paN-) with the blade held at a right angle to that scraped.

i'puh

Nan uwah di maphod hi pangupuh hinan lapnay ti muymuyammi.

A knife is good for scraping skin from a sweet potato because sweet potatoes are soft.

i-: i'puh

liplip lotlot udut 2 uwah 2