Sama, Central - putung

putung

N-

‘debt’ to apply money or goods against a debt to lessen it; or, to pay off a debt; to garnish wages.

This money is not given in cash from the debtor, but is deducted from wages either voluntarily, or nonvoluntarily by having wages garnished.

Putungun na utang ku ma gadji ku.

Garnish my salary now for my debt.

eh, ni-

to be applied against a debt.

Niyah aa magdeyng taga utang tag ku lima pilak. Iyan ya hinang ku, niputung na sidja eh ku, ngoddoh aku deyng halgah lima pilak.

There is a fisherman [who] has a debt to me of five pesos. What is what I do, [it] is just applied against the debt by me, I get fish worth five pesos [from him].

There is a fisherman who owes me five pesos. What I do, I get five pesos worth of fish from him and apply it against his debt thereby paying it off.