buwát
Sense
v
Affixes mag-, m-, -en, i-, -an
English To make; build.
Example sentence
Tagbanwa Siyuy nagbuwát?
English Who made it?
Example sentence
Tagbanwa Unuy binwat nga ara'dungan?
English What is the chair made of?
Example sentence
Tagbanwa Seka i binwat nga ara'dungan.
English Rattan is what the chair is made of (answer to question).
Example sentence
Tagbanwa Seka nga binwat i ara'dungan.
English The chair is made of rattan (plain statement).
Example sentence
Tagbanwa Nagbelag it pamwát.
English (They) are different in method
of
making.
n
buwát-buwát
English Materials, parts which make up s.t.
Sense
v
Affixes mag-*, m-, -en, i-, -an, ma-
English To do.
Example sentence
Tagbanwa Unuy pagbuwaten mu?
English What are you doing?
Example sentence
Tagbanwa Siyuy nagbuwát?
English Who did it?
Sense
v
Affixes mag-*, m-, -en, i-, -an
English To work.
Example sentence
Tagbanwa
Pabwaten ku si Méliton.
English I|́bll have Meliton work.
Example sentence
Tagbanwa Da'ku kabwát dedelém ka may sakít.
English I won't be
able
to
work tomorrow because I have a pain.
adj
mabinwaten
English Busy, always occupied, industrious.
See alsoginawaan
n
binwatan
English Work done; wage earned.
Example sentence
Tagbanwa Betanganan yat ukuman i mu'sá, uyun kat mga binwatan nirá.
English He will sentence all to judgment in harmony with what they have
done.
Example sentence
Tagbanwa Ega bay situ ka namisit binwatan ya du'ut kumpanya.
English Heś not here because he went to get his wages (lit. what he worked for) from the company.
See alsoaldaw
See alsotangdan
See alsournal
Sense
v
buwát-buwát
Affixes maN-, paN-an
English To frame, fabricate lies about s.o. to get him into trouble.
Example sentence
Tagbanwa Kat'esang du'ún kamí pat Beróng, ega ka'sa akú pamwát-buwátan it mga ka'ibáan ku.
English Before when we were still at Berong, it wasn't only once that lies
were
told by others there (to get me into trouble).
Example sentence
Tagbanwa Binwat ya, piyamuwát-buwátan ya nay ma'iba ya ka isa'un lamáng mabándiyan.
English What he did was tell
lies
about his fellow just to get him fined.
See alsodamay2
Sense
n
búwa-búwat
English Preliminary talk; talk about s.t. with no follow-up; s.t. one is giving a try with no certainty of a good outcome.
Example sentence
Tagbanwa Ega bay matúud ya kayán. Búwa-búwat ku na lamáng.
English Nothing is certain yet about that. I|́bm just
talking about it now.
Example sentence
Tagbanwa
Búwa-búwat ya lamáng bayán, ega bay kamatúudan, ka úngaytú na'lay na, ega nagáy pagpalapusan.
English That was just his talk, no reality to it, because look, itś been a long time already and he hasn't proceeded with it at all.
Example sentence
Tagbanwa
Búwa-búwat ku bayán. Ega bay kamatúudan, adimáat magka'rút akú.
English Thatś just something I|́bm giving
a
try. Itś not a real job, as if I knew now to do it.
Derivative pángarubwáten
n
Note Cottage industry, crafts.