Yakan - polong

Section or end of s.t. (as if cut crosswise, of fruit, wood, house, etc.)

Piyem pōng kapayahin?

How many sections (are there) of the papaya?

Urunganun ku tebbunu iyan tellum pōng.

Give me three sections of your sugarcane.

Tuli la'i ku si dem pōng.

I sleep there at one end.

Tapeddangne kukkunen dem pōng.

She cut off one end of her fingernail.

For s.t. to break (crosswise).

Polong lengngennen pegge' labo' iye.

His arm is broken because he fell.

Pōng dalumkun pegge' tuwas ila'itkun.

My needle broke because what I am sewing is hard.

tigpu'

N-, mag-

To cut or break s.t. (crosswise).

Niya' mōng kennahin.

Someone cut the fish.

Pinōng we' ne kapayahin pina'ampat.

He has cut the papaya into four (sections crosswise).

I chopped wood earlier.

pata'3 pagti' seppak sagpi'

kepak

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