hangkan1
Therefore; the reason why; that is why.
A common expression is the combination hangkan hep ‘that is the reason why’ with the connotation ‘as you know or as is common knowledge’.
Because it rained, that is why I didn’t do the laundry.
The reason why I came, you know, is because you sent for me.
hangkan la'i
May it not happen.
Expression to state the wish that the evil, one just mentioned or heard about, may not happen.
Don’t go, perhaps there will be an ambush on the road. May it not happen.
Hangkan la'i, patala Tuhan, dindingan punu.
May it not happen, may God cause it to be far, let the mountains shut it off.
Hangkan la'i, tingga' dawa, higad langit.
May it not happen, clear-skin of millet, edge of the sky.
Meaning: may the disaster be as far as the edge of the sky; or: as infrequent as the skin of the millet. (The millet hardly ever has a thin shiny skin layer under the hull, or if it does it is minute.)