Mapun - lān

1.1

A road; street; path; highway; time.

Mamooy tu lān pa Tana' Makket?

Which is the road to Tana' Makket?

Ya' bitu tuwa' lān jām tuu.

The time on this clock isn't correct.

1.2

lanan

A way (of doing s.t.).

Subay akigun lanan me' ku buwat kelle.

You should copy the way I make a canoe.

1.3

-um-, magpa-

To walk; to go somewhere.

Ongoy ko ya' lumān patangkas?

Why don't you walk fast?

1.4

ma-

To drive a vehicle or fly a plane; to drive cattle.

Tud patong jama looy malān jīp.

That person is very skilled at driving a jeep.

1.5

mag--an

To always be going somewhere.

Pooy me' lupus buwatan nu bong ko wā maglanan?

How will your work ever get finished if you are always going somewhere?

1.6

palānan

A place to go.

Ya' gi ku kapahās man luma' bi sabap luu gi palanan ku.

I can't stop by your house yet because I still have to go somewhere.

palān

Habitually going somewhere.

Ya' ku doman sitampu ka danda looy sabap palān ya.

I don't want to marry that girl because she is habitually going somewhere.

2

N-

-an

To take s.t. somewhere to sell.

Bay ku ngalanan daying pa tabu'.

I took some fish to the market to sell.

3

N-, ma-

-an

-un, -an

To go somewhere to compete (with an opposing team); to go somewhere to attack s.o.; to predict by divination when or how one should go and compete or attack s.o. (ma-).

Ngalān kami magbula.

We are going to compete (against another team) in baseball.

Ngalān kami jama looy.

Let's go and attack that person.

Daa hangat lanan nu manuk nu.

Don't always be taking your rooster somewhere to fight.

Tud bay pandikal jama looy bay malān kami sabap bay ngapus manuk kami.

That person is a real expert at predicting when we should enter a cockfight because our chicken won.

bono'