etun
Sense 1
verb
English. Stops doing s.t. with the expectation of continuing.
Example sentence:
Subanen. Megdayun na ita. Sa' buus dupi'an ita, megetun na laak ita dig bilayan di gunaan kiin.
English. Let's go on. If we get rained on later, we'll just stop at various houses farther along there.
Sense 2
English. Passes a message from person to person.
Example sentence:
Subanen. Naa iini pimuun dinaan nu timu'ay. Yamu na dawi metau megetunetun di nga silingan nia ki mipenggulaula dini nga Ma'tengan kiin.
English. Now, the headman sent to me that it's up to you (pl), they say, to keep on passing on to the neighbors what happened to Ma'tengan's
family.
Sense 3
English. Goes from task to task without completing each one.
Example sentence:
Subanen. Ki getaw kiin, megetunetun na ig baalenen, lamugen pa meglilik, menaga', muka' megbaal di besakanen nda' nai metubusen dun.
English. That person keeps going from job to job, mixing clearing, felling, and working in his paddies, (with) nothing of it getting
finished.
etunetun
English. Are of unequal heights, qualities.
Example sentence:
Subanen. Su pimulau ma'is sagya migetunetuni taasen saba' nu minayan kitu pedes.
English. The corn I planted is randomly unequal in height due to that dry spell that came along.