ABLÁT

To throw, cast, crash one thing against another, ⊗ en; that which, i ⊗; he who, mangñi ⊗.

To raise the hand in anger, holding an object more or less long and letting it fall afterwards with violence on something, e.g.: the horseman the whip on the horse, the teacher the discipline on the child without ordering him to lie down.

See batbát.

ABLÓ

Wild cat.

See púsa, músang.

ABLÓG

Tree whose leaf is used to cure rheumatism: it bears a small and edible fruit.

To drive away or make flee a person or animal, ⊗ en.

See ábug.

ABLÓN

Rubbing; to rub tendons that are shrunk, or a pregnant woman as if straightening the fetus toward where desired, ⊗ en.

To reduce a dislocated bone.

See ból-lo, tlot.

ABRÁO

To parboil.

Some take it for the very act of picking vegetables from the garden to boil them in their time.

ABRÓT

To pull up a post, nail, harpoon, etc. ⊗ en.

See párot.

ABTÓ

For the infant to jump upwards in the mother’s womb, um ⊗.

To repent of one’s first intention, not to fulfill what was agreed: pinangguépco ti maquimisa ita bigát, ngem immabtuac, I intended to hear mass this morning, but I backed out.

The fighting cock that while fighting withdraws losing and turning tail, um ⊗.

In some towns it signifies to feel or take the pulse of a sick person, etc.

ABUCÁY

Small fruit from which rosaries are made, tears of David as we call them.

ÁBUG

To herd, urge beasts; the act, ag ⊗.

To straighten, direct a thing as if herding, ⊗ en: iábugmo ti danúm iti tálon.

To incite, move to good or evil.

It is sometimes taken for scaring, chasing away; diac ma ⊗ daguiti manúc iti pinagáyan, I cannot chase the chickens away from the drying rice.

See ablóg, ácay.

ABÚLOG

Fence of canes that natives put around their house below and which serves them as a wall; unlike álad which is the fence around the outside of the house or garden.

Metaphorically, it is applicable to the dress of those who adorn themselves to conceal their ugliness.

ABÚLOY

Conformity of opinion, approval; ⊗ ac ti pangguépmo, I agree with your opinion; in what one agrees, i ⊗.

See anámong, al-lót.

ABUNG

Hut where poor farmers take shelter and usually live.

Multitude of fish called dalág when they gather and thrash at the water’s surface: for said fish to gather, um ⊗.

See calapáo, panjên.

ABUNG-ÁBUNG

Small temple or species of small altar covered above in the form of a vault, which they usually put along the Corpus Christi procession and in the Stations of the Cross through the streets.

ABÚNGOT

Kerchief or cloth with which one covers simply the eyes or else the entire head: to cover oneself thus, ag ⊗; with that which, i ⊗; i ⊗ mo dáyta páñoc, cover yourself with my kerchief.

ABÚROY

Rational or irrational female who in a single birth gives birth to two or more offspring of only one sex.

Some take it for the children born así, and not for the female that bears them.

ABUSCUÁ

Signifies the same as abústa, and they say it when something does not come to mind or they do not remember what they want to express.

ABUSMAN

Although, nonetheless, despite: ⊗ pay ta… besides that…

ABÚSTA

Besides that: ⊗ tinacáoandac, indác pay bináot, besides robbing me, they also gave me blows.

ABÚT

Hole: to pierce a thing, ⊗ an; pierced thing, na ⊗ an.

Pit; naiabút á mag-magná, walking he put his foot in a pit.

To make a pit, ag ⊗.

To mutually bring up each other’s defects when litigants or opponents argue to defend themselves against each other before the judge, family father, teacher, etc., agabun-abútda.

ÁBUT

To reach with the voice to what the point of the sol-fa requires; diac ma ⊗ ti úni ti tiple, I do not reach the voice of the treble.

To arrive to join with a person or animal that goes ahead; na ⊗ ac daguiti cacabsátco iti ng̃átay ti dálan.

To reach the mass, comedy, etc., that is, to arrive in time, ma ⊗ an.

To catch up with rain, night, storm, etc. on the road or in another part.

To understand a thing with the intelligence, ma ⊗ ti ísip.

To reach what is high.

To extend a thing to someone who does not reach it; i ⊗ mo caniac ti libro, reach me the book.

On beasts, to touch and injure themselves with their feet on the pasterns or branches of the hands when walking, ag ⊗.

To be reached by a thing, to be insufficient, not to reach what is desired, e.g.: food to finish before the end of the month, or money before making payments, ma ⊗ ti canén, ti pirác.

ABÚTAO

Hole in wall, door, fruit, box, etc.

Pierced thing, na ⊗ an.

See attúbao, abút.

ÁBUY

To incite, move, encourage another to a thing with words or deeds; ⊗ anna iti pádana á táo iti dágques, incites his neighbor to bad things: i ⊗ na iti naimbág quet madí, directs him to good things and he refuses direction.

To assist the sick to die well, ⊗ an: marigátan ni N. ta ab-abúyandan, N. is in distress, for they are already assisting him to die well.

See áuis, tábuy.

AC-ACLÓ

(from acló).

The bone of the arm called shoulder blade.

ACÁBA

Broad thing in tangible and palpable objects, such as table, house, cloth, etc.: tal-lopólo á vara ti ca ⊗ ti balayco, thirty varas is the breadth of my house, that is, of the timbers that compose it, not of light: to widen a thing, um ⊗; to widen it, ⊗ en, 1, pa ⊗ en; to widen a house not yet finished, e.g.; house under construction, ca ⊗ en.

See láua.

ÁCAC

Double chin or fatness in the throat; to begin to form, ag ⊗; to be already formed, or, to have it, ⊗ an.

ÁCAR

To move, transfer from one place to another, um ⊗; that which is moved, i ⊗.

To transmit a contagious disease; na ⊗ anac iti burtóng, smallpox was transmitted to me; na ⊗ annac iti burtóng, you transmitted smallpox to me.

See ális.

ÁCAS

To collect or pick up what was put in the sun or out to air, ag ⊗; he who, mang ⊗; to collect a determined thing, ⊗ en.

Signifies also to gather the tablecloth that remained on the table, the dishes scattered in the kitchen, the jewels that served for something, the curtain that was placed on the window, etc.

Indigo mortar after it has acquired certain hardness or consistency.

See dúlin.

ÁCAY

To gather while herding, e.g.: the cows to lead them to the fold, ⊗ en.

To drive fish toward a given point in the river in order to catch them, ag ⊗; that which, i ⊗; he who, mang ⊗; the place where they are gathered, nacai ⊗ an, or, nangi ⊗ an.

See ábug.

ACCÁNG

To walk with legs wide apart, like a colt or one who has buboes, ag ⊗.

ACCÁO

To walk in strides, ⊗ á magmagná.

ACCÁT

To remove a thing from the place where it was or separate it from its principal, e.g.: a piece of cloth from the bolt, ⊗ en; na ⊗ en, it is already removed; he who removes, mang ⊗.

Idi calman ti pannaca ⊗ ti sicágna, yesterday she miscarried.

See iccat its synonym.

ACCÓB

Cover, lid; to cover a thing, ⊗ an.

To take another underneath, e.g.: two who wrestle, na ⊗ an na ti cagabbóna.

To cover like a hen her chicks.

See calúb.

ACHUETE

Tree imported from New Spain, whose fruit, covered with a husk full of spines, cooks use to give color to stews, although it is considered harmful to the stomach.

ACLÍLI

To carry or hold a thing under the armpit, ag ⊗; that which, i ⊗.

Some take it for grabbing someone under the armpit bringing the arm backwards, not forwards.

See igpít.

ACLÓ

Large spoon that serves to stir the pot, stew, etc.; sangca ⊗, one spoonful.

See sidoc.

ACLÓN

Refuge, protection: to protect, shelter, ⊗ en; aclónennatay ni Apótayo á Santa Maria, Our Lady Saint Mary protects us, etc.; protector, mang ⊗; to ask for shelter, pa ⊗.

See túlung, taclíng.

ÁCO

To receive any thing with both hands, to receive the reward of good works done, ⊗ en.

To shelter, receive with piety; he who, mang ⊗.

ACOB

To join by their inner faces two flat or concave things of the same species, like two plates, two shells, etc. pag ⊗ en: to join hands, he who prays or says mass, ag ⊗.

The amount that one gives to enter into partnership and companionship with others to trade, gamble, etc.

To substitute, compensate with things of a different kind, e.g.: twenty pesos with two cows, ⊗ an; with that which is compensated or substituted, i ⊗.

ACOP

To take between both hands or between two brooms, e.g.: trash, ag ⊗; to take a determined thing thus, ⊗ en; he who, mang ⊗.

ACOY

To gather with the edge of the hand grains, money, etc. bringing it toward oneself, ⊗ en.

See cuycúy.

ACSÉT

To burn what is cooked or roasted, macsét.

To burn one’s mouth or tongue with the lime of the betel quid; nacsétacon iti ápug ti mamá.

See quessét.

ACUT-ÁCUT

Coppery bumblebee that makes its home in the ground.

AD-ÁD

To rough-hew for the first time a knife, axe, etc. on rough, hard stone, to sharpen it afterwards on softer whetstone, ⊗ en.

AD-ÁDAS

Short difference of one thing to another, e.g.: two houses almost equal, two individuals of almost the same height, talent, etc.; to differ así, ag ⊗, or, um ⊗.

See abarngís.