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With the composition um it signifies to come, and sometimes is also taken for to go; um ⊗ cat ditóy, come here; um ⊗ acto iti baláymo, I will go to your house; time and mode, ia ⊗; cause, ⊗ an; place where, ⊗ en; to cause to come or go somewhere, ⊗ en; adda ⊗ ec, I have somewhere to go, I have to go to…

With the composition i it signifies to bring; but it is already considered antiquated.

Refrain: úray unáy ti rigat no umáy la quetdi á agcay-cáyas, misfortune matters little if it comes alone.

Service, benefit, utility of a thing, pa ⊗; aoán pa ⊗ na, it has no use whatever.

To make application of a thing, offer it, ipa ⊗; ipa ⊗ co quen Apotayó á Santa Maria daytoy relicario, I offer this reliquary to Our Lady Saint Mary, etc.; ipa ⊗ ti misa cadaguiti natáy, apply the mass in suffrage for the dead.

To accommodate what is not useful for one thing so that it serves for another; dáytoy lacása ng̃a aoán ti caipaayánna, ipa ⊗ co á pagbunubúnan iti sili, this box that is worth nothing, accommodate it or make it serve for the pepper seedbed.

Permissible, reasonable, useful, suitable, maipa ⊗.

Utility, benefit that one can derive from a thing; aoan ti caipaayánna, there is nothing to make use of it for, to use it in.

Treatment or way of behaving with a person; malálo ti pama ⊗ mda caniac, they treat me excessively poorly.

Means or instrument that one uses and takes hold of to execute any thing, pama ⊗ an.

It is an interjection of pain; ¡ay-ayao, ubíng! oh poor you, child! ¡ay-ayác pay iti castóy á gásatco! unhappy me, what luck! ¡ay Diosco! oh my God!