ela'anan
Sense
n
English Space between; s.t. between two others.
Example sentence
Tagbanwa Da'na ála-alaíd i ela'anan it panluwak mu ngaytút niyug.
English You didn't leave much space
between these coconuts youv́e planted.
Example sentence
Tagbanwa Da'ga nagá bayán naglangkit i lugta' namen. May ela'anan nagang talu-talun.
English Our fields aren't right side by side. Thereś a bit of forest between.
Grammar This noun is probably ela'an
-an, since the verb forms occur with pa-an and piyag-an, but it never appears in the unaffixed form.
v
pa'ela'anan
English To put a space or s.t. else between.
Example sentence
Tagbanwa
Pa'ela'anan mu nagát mga pirang mitru i panluwak mu.
English
Leave
a
space of several meters between planting.
Sense
n
piyag'ela'anan
English Time lapse between two births; child born between two other births but who has died.
v
English To elapse (of time between two births).
Example sentence
Tagbanwa Ega na'lay i piyag'ela'anan nira, sang linggu' lamáng.
English There wasn't much time elapsed
between (their births), just one week.