Sama, Central

pa-

to increase; to occur increasingly; to grow in a figurative sense; to be on the rise.

Beteh sa lowa pasong na hinang tutu ma jalom paglahat.

It seems [it] appears [that] this action is increasing in the neighborhood.

1.

N-

to increase something; to enrich; to intensify; to do more.

The stem, song , and the actor focus form, nong , appear to alternate.

Tandah ku nong/song pasong lowa jantih paglahat.

I can see the place is becoming increasingly more beautiful.

Mbal du makasong ma aku pilak ku eh nu ngoddoh.

My money taken by you, [it] is not such a big deal as to be able to enrich me. [Meaning, either he can afford to lose a little (or wants people to think so anyway), or he is being very gracious to the thief! The former is much more likely.]

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2.

0, N-

‘spite’ to intensify actions out of spite; to do increasingly out of spite; ‘more’ to do all the more out of spite; to spitefully go beyond; also, in certain contexts, "instead".

The stem, song , often alternates with the actor focus form, nong .

Nong nilangan eh ku ya, mbal sohoh ku magbaseh-baseh, song- na/nong-na na pasod ni sanggan. Hati-na addat teh tutu "nganjuruh".

The more I requested him not to get wet the more he got into the basin. The meaning of an attitude like that is "spitefulness".

Nong/song sidja sigeya lillahi.

They just ran all the more.

Nong/song sidja eh na masong ni bihing dinding, mbal pin bey nitaguh eh na ni tangngah.

[It] was caused to be moved all the more nearer to the wall by him, [it] wasn't being put in the middle by him.

progress; improvement.

Bang hinang, mbal niyah lowa-na maka tandah-na, hati-na mbal niyah bey kasong-songan eh nu maghinang.

If the work, its appearance and its evidence are nothing, its meaning is there is no progress made by you.

If there is nothing to show for the work, it means that there has been no progress in your work.

moreover.

Saguwah mbal ya bey pakale. Nong, eh na ngalabusu sumpey maka bayad ma iya.

But he didn't listen. Moreover, [he] was jailed by him until [he] could make payments to him.

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