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dempōng
1
(see also polong)
One half (more or less), one part (cut across an object, not lengthwise).
Used esp. of food items like fish, fruit, etc.
Bellihanun kite kenna dempōng atawa bang hadje dempōng kepak.
Buy us one half fish (cut across) or if it is big one fourth (cut lengthwise then across.)
Ngeddo' ku bātakanne dempōng.
I take one part of his bamboo pole.
Tabelliku bulaknen dempōng.
I bought one part of his land.
dempōng kepak
One fourth.
2
One end (of a building etc.).
Kusinahin la'i si dempōng.
The kitchen is at one end.
Niya' luma'ne la'i si dempōng bulak inin.
He has a house there at the other end of this land.
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