lilas
Variant. tilas
verb
English. Splits appropriate material for weaving a hat, rice basket or mat.
Example sentence:
Subanen. Penglilas mu pa sug baluyu, baalen ku delus.
English. Split these pandanus leaves for me, for me to weave a rice basket.
Example sentence:
Subanen. Buus gebii, pentilasen ku pa ig baalan gikam ku kiin, adun lema', mpekemutan ku lelaay.
English. Later, tonight I'm going to split my material for weaving a mat, so I tomorrow, I can start on it in between my other work.
noun
English. The width of material split for weaving.
Generic. bekla'