elab
verb
English. Eats people; believed to be the habit of large fish.
Example sentence:
Subanen. Ki tendengan, sa' gembagel na gupia, paingalan nami dun mengelab, pu' mendapa' na getaw.
English. When a tendengan fish gets very large, we call it a mengelab, because it then catches people.
Example sentence:
Subanen. Migdedengeg dia sebulus Titik, ditu daw Giniin, duuni mengelab. Pu' si Legya' kitu, milemes ma ditug linaw kali' pemana'. Sikna suminalem, nda' pa puli' kegua'.
English. It is rumored there in one part of Titik that there in Engin, there is a man-eating fish. For Legya' drowned there in the
pool while he was spear-fishing. When he submerged, he wasn't able to come up again.