Someone or something (-om-) begins, starts.
Somniknan sa nayyayo chito namenaya.
Our dogs started to run.
Somniknan do dawri, insiknan naw mangnanawo.
(It) started from there, he began to teach.
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sitnan
Someone or something (maN-) begins, starts something (i-) at someplace or sometime (-an).
maN- maniknan
Isiknan namen danaw magtālon sichangori.
We start to make a rice paddy now.
Siknanan ko iyaw bahay kwaya atepan.
I start at my house to put on the roof.
Nyaya danaw siknanan no gobat.
This is (the time) when war begins.
Nawri danaw siniknanan nakanapyek no ranomaw a nayachan.
That was (the time) when the water began slowly to dry up.
Something (mai-) is started.
kasiknan
A specific beginning, start of something.
No kasiknan no bagyo, ki mabekas.
The beginning of the storm was in the morning.
kasiknanan
A nonspecific time of beginning.
Nakagatos dana si Satanas a yapo pad kasiknanan.
Satan sinned from the beginning.