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legga
unaffixed
To learn a lesson (from a previous mistake); to stop doing s.t. or to be apprehensive about doing s.t. again (after a bad or painful experience).
Bisan pe siye ilubakan ga'i pe legga.
Even though they have been spanked they still have not learned the lesson.
Legga ne iye.
He has learned his lesson.
Legga ku masambi'an iye pegge' ga'i magbayed.
I am apprehensive to lend to him because he does not pay.
N-, mag-
To punish (in order to give a lesson).
A person may be beaten, put in prison, told if you do that I will do such and such, etc.
Punish one of the children so that they will be afraid.
Now I will punish children (before I didn’t) so that they will not be bad.
Leggahun dahu' mākanak iyan.
Punish those children.
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