letin
noun
English. The first stage of regrowing forest when the growth is obviously trees, but still readily fellable with machetes rather than
axes.
Example sentence:
Subanen. Inaan, mbilin nau dinig balay ta, pu' ki nga kelabaw ta kini, muka' nga pimetang ta kiin, peglegauten ku pa di ngag letinan kiin.
English. As for me, I will stay behind here at our home, for as for these carabaos of ours and those things of ours, I'll haul them
there to the regrowth areas (to escape enemy soldiers).
c.f. alug; ulangan