gelal
Sense 1
noun
English. What s.t. or s.o. is called, a title.
Example sentence:
Subanen. Si Agdino, iini gelalen datu', pu' su gama'en si Tangkilan, iin ig bekna datu' nu nga Subaanen.
English. Agdino has the title of datu', because his father Tangkilan was the Subanens' first datu'.
Sense 2
English. S.t. to be learned from a story, an experience, a moral, lesson.
Example sentence:
Subanen. Naa, tubus. Buat di guksugan keni, duuni gelali malap ta dun, “Su getaw ndi' meglingay di pektiduanen, ndi' mateng tu gengayanen.”
English. Now then, it's finished. From this story, there is a word that we can get, “The person who doesn't look back on where he came
from, he will not reach his destination.”
penggelal
noun
English. What is considered a single word that may be a linguistically single morpheme, a word plus suffix or a whole phrase or clause.
Example sentence:
Subanen. Sug duma getaw, melaun penggelal ndi'en melituk, ma'niin mayur, mayul.
English. Some people have many words they can't pronounce correctly, as when one pronounces mayor as mayol.