tugda' Sense 1 verb English. Thrusts downward along s.t.'s vertical axis: pounds, as rice. Example sentence: Subanen. Pengmia'mia'ay tugda'ayi biuun mu kiin, pu' metimalaan mekpesik sa' penekegan mu. English. Pound what you're pounding gently, for it will all splash out if you do it hard. In group with: bayu Idiom: tugda' egdan English. The bottom of one's stairway. Example sentence: Subanen. Sug baa' kalabung, midepet dini tugda' egdan nami. English. The flood yesterday reached up to the bottom of our stairs. Cultural Note. Formerly ladders oft. were pounded into the ground. Sense 2 English. Bumps headfirst into a stone or stump in water, of inanimate entities as a raft or log. Example sentence: Subanen. Kali' peglegait, bena' mitugda' su gaiten, misegbu tug bungabung. English. When he rafting and it ran aground, he fell into the rapids. Generic. sugat