Sama, Central

mag-, -an

to be chancy; to be uncertain; to be dicey.

Hinang tutu magsarap-sarapan siyan-siyan hap sukud-na ya makakoleh iya.

This work is chancy [about] whoever has the good luck to be able to obtain it.

This work is very dicey. It takes a lot of luck to get it.

N-

to chance something; to take a chance; to undertake something of which the results are uncertain or unknown.

This stem is often reduplicated.

Take a chance now, whether or not he is in the house, you go.

0

to happen by chance; to chance.

[It] chanced to happen.