pigis verb English. Becomes ill suddenly with an illness characteristically inside the body and attributed to spirits. Example sentence: Subanen. Sa' bunu'en ita menamad, iini beluyen pigis; su mesait ni Senad, masi' pigis, kali' ni Ansibay pengebatay. English. When we are attacked by a menamad spirit, that is when the pigis illness occurs. What do you know, Senad's illness was pigis, as Ansibay divined by using an egg. Generic. ladu