Sama, Central

kati

N-, paN-

to catch game using a live decoy; to hunt with a live decoy.

I shall catch a wild chicken.

paN-

idiom

‘child’ to promote the conception and birth of a child by first adopting one; hence, to adopt.

The instrument verbal inflection is used here, as the adopted child is thought of as the instrument through which the biological child will be conceived.

Pangati bi anak-anak ili?

Are you going to adopt that child in order to conceive one?

pangati

to have a hunting obsession.

Pangati libuyuh si Abdul.

Abdul has an obsession for hunting wild chickens.