partially; sparingly; without all of one’s effort; half-heartedly

to be hesitant or reluctant

prince, the child of a chief

to insert something into something else; to put something inside a place (as a machete in its sheath)

ignorant, unaware

a swing

basket

calamity, disaster (believed to come from God, such as a plague, flood, earthquake)

mangrove tree; mangrove swamp

corpse

a time (usually three or seven days) of watching over the bed where a recently deceased person slept

wet

sea cucumber

trunk of a tree; log, stalk of a plant; long bar of laundry soap

crosspiece fastened across a canoe or small boat to which the outriggers are connected

umbilical cord

stomach, belly (of a person, animal or boat)

stone, rock, pebble

set aside a coconut or stone for every hundred coconuts

core of a boil, clot of blood

core of a boil; clot of blood

a flat rock

a smell, odor (either good or bad)

having a bad smell, smelly

payment

pay for something

old (with respect to objects, in the sense of being worn, used often, out of date, out of fashion, etc.)’

strike something or someone repeatedly (as laundry with a wooden paddle)

tongue

to catch an animal with a noose (usually placed on the ground)

lake

a red snappeer fish

an armspan (a measure of length or depth)

chief; headman; any male member or descendant of a chief’s family

millet

leaf; hair (on one’s head); blade of grass

fish (generic)

having an abundance of fish

carry something on one’s head (as laundry)

two

two in each group; double-minded, uncertain

for a coach or owner of a rooster to have a player or rooster that has just won take on another opponent right after winning; to make it two

sea cow; mermaid; a kind of unusual fish (some describe it as a mermaid; others say it’s part human and cries when butchered)

bruised --- of the dark discoloration of skin tissue following trauma

rotten (wood); crumbling (wood); turned to dust (as wood eaten by termites)

root, as of a tree

green

any pail, dipper, or container used for drawing water or other liquids

a wild jerking movement (as an animal when not wanting to have someone mount it or attach a cart to it); inappropriate behavior or words

characterized by roughhousing or jumping around wildly

grind something for someone; a grinder

to grind something (as coffee or corn); to digest something; to husk rice by grinding; grind it!, husk it!

scissors; shears

to cut something with scissors; cut someone’s hair

to drag something; when reduplicated this means to drag by force (as a thief being dragged by force into jail)

tightness; tight

a hundred

by the hundreds, in terms of hundreds

common sense

tighten up something, as when tying up rope

tooth

one’s reflection in another person’s eye (‘person of the eye’)

nominalizer with adjectives or stative verbs indicating the manner of doing an action

marker of the adversative passive; #ka-lasuh-an ‘to be angry (at s.o. or about s.t.); (cf. #lasu ‘anger’); #ka-saŋom-am ‘be overtaken by the night (i.e. for night to come while one is doing something) (cf. #saŋom ‘night, the period from about 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.); #ka-uwan-an ‘to be rained on’ (cf. #uwan ‘rain’)

formative for nouns of location; #ka-batuh-an ‘a rocky area’ (cp. #batu ‘stone, rock’)

rocky area (not good for planting)

to get paid

for someone to have run out of something (as money, or provisions when housebound during a typhoon)

having lots of green in something

the amount that someone can eat

to eat something

for a person to be discovered as having something that has been recognized as not belonging to him

a bit (used in a horse’s mouth)

a place where people gather

to have a fly or flies stuck or dead in something

to have a chance to do something

(for a place) to be hit by an earthquake

tomato; the tomato plant

to add to or put tomatoes in something

to be seen (as proof that something is true or false)

a group of small islands

squid

for one’s teeth to be able to chew

having lots of white in something

a cotton tree; cotton from the cotton tree

a fault in doing something

purlin (crosspiece nailed to rafters used as backing for nailing roofing material to)

a rafter

a toy top

a plumb bob

able to go against the wind or current

arrival

to have something or someone come or arrive to you

destination; to have a feeling or emotion come upon you (like hunger, anger, sickness, tiredness, love, etc.)

a hand plane (a carpenter’s tool used for smoothing wood)

to be able to be used for planting (as land that is available)

to be personally affected by the speed of something or someone; to think that something or someone is fast

to know something or someone

to pick (fruit, vegetables, flowers)

to fish with a pole

to perform the wedding ceremony; to put on a wedding celebration

tree; firewood; lumber

add some wood to the fire (imper.)

to recognize something or someone; to be acquainted with someone; to identify something; to have someone identify something

to accuse someone for having something that you recognize as belonging to you or someone else

eyebrow

giant clam

general term for food or cooked rice

to be or become infested with lice

head of person or animal; leader of a group

I; me; my; 1sg pronoun, both focus and non focus; also 1sg possessive pronoun

as for, regarding, concerning

grouper

to shave (as whiskers, hair)

fingernail, toenail, claw; hoof

a breadfruit tree or its fruit

scabies; small vermin (found in open sores or wounds)

to gather together

a pile of things gathered together; a gathering of people

flea, louse (as on human hair, or on an animal)

a tick

skin; the hide of an animal; rind, peeling of fruit; bark of tree; surface of water; coconut husk

a valley; a dip in the road

blood

having a menstrual cycle, having blood on something

to be enveloped, covered completely (by lots of something, as a lump of sugar covered by ants)

a sharp bend in something (as in steel)

a round, hand-thrown fishing net

softness; easy-going, flexible, receptive, patient; easy to overcome; weak (as one’s opponent)

anything added or mixed (with something to form a blend or mixture)

add it, mix it in!

road; street; path; highway; time

a way of doing something

bent, bowed, curved backwards

bent, bowed, curved backwards

a fly

having flies

swim

the sky

a cloth or drapery used to decorate the ceiling of a house during a celebration

to swim

distaste for something one is in contact with in excess

stove (generic)

to slap or swat (as a mosquito on one’s body); to pat on the back

door, gate; opportunity; chance; way

spider

depth (as of the tide); deep (of thinking, common sense, wisdom, speech, understanding, etc.); late into the night; serious, of a sickness

put something into one’s mouth

wilted or withered (as plants, leaves, etc.)

a sail (on a boat)

a clattering sound (as from dishes clattering together); a clicking sound (as the keys on a typewriter

(for fruit to be) characterized as having lost some of its flavor due to being overripe; for a woman’s beauty to become less or to fade (due to her makeup running, her hair getting messed up, clothes getting wrinkled, etc.)

to grind a creature or insect against another surface to kill it

a curve or bend (in a road or path)

five

earthquake; have an earthquake

a light repetitive thudding sound

go downhill

slope, downhill area of land

to walk, to go somewhere

to swim; to swim to a destination; to swim to an object and bring it back

house; store, or building

a playhouse for children

moss or algae (on things in the water)

having moss or algae on it

the hull of a canoe made from a hollowed-out log

spittle, spit

to spit

to overflow

to overfill; make something overflow

to spit something out after putting it in one’s mouth

to cause something to be old or worn out (esp. by constant wearing or using)

to swing back and forth like a pendulum

to stand watch over the place where a recently deceased person used to sleep in his bed

to cause an animal to act wildly

to seal (an agreement); to guarantee; to pledge (in order to seal an agreement)

for something like a kite or leaf to float down in the wind with a swaying back and forth motion

to wind back and forth

to live in a house

make a living by raising chickens

to make one’s living from copra

to introduce; to make oneself recognizable; to introduce oneself

to stack; make something higher; to add another level; to be stacked on top of each other (as lumber)

to perceive, deduce; to indicate or give an impression

to address or refer to someone as “Sangay” because of having the same name

to spray (a liquid)

come and go continuously; to fluctuate (as the price or availability of something, one’s good and bad traits, etc.)

to have the same weight

to wear shoes

to make something known to someone; to inform

drive a vehicle or fly a plane

to be tired of

wilted, withered

to make a light repetitive thudding sound (as when fruit falls to the ground, someone is pounding rice, etc.)

a prepared betel nut chew; to chew betel nut

a container for the ingredients of the betel nut chew (often brass or bronze)

a bead; a precious stone

to sparkle; to see stars (as when hit on the head)

thin; slender

to fill

domestic chicken (rooster or hen)

any kind of bird; any flying insect

a wild chicken

to eat something, consume something; to bite into something (as sandpaper into wood)

utensils for eating, such as spoons, glasses, plates, etc.

to have a picnic

to fill

to remove something by slapping, banging, brushing off (as when slapping a ball out of someone’s hand, banging an eraser against something to remove the built up chalk, brushing a bug off of one’s arm

to chew

to whiten something; to become white

a tree that looks like a breadfruit tree; the fruit resembles breadfruit but its seeds and pulp are similar to jackfruit

eye; the sharp edge or point of anything (as the cutting edge of a machete or knife, the sharp points on a grater, the head of a spear, etc.); anything circular in shape that is essential to that in which it is contained (as a burner on a stove, the core of a boil)

East; the sun

the top of a whetstone

to make something delicious

a noose

a buttonhole

the dial or face of a clock or watch

a spy (#Old Mapun) (< #Malay?)

to give a discount

rice bird

new flowers (from betel nut, coconut tree, or corn)

to use an umbrella

whiten something; become white

to fish with a long fence-type net

a pearl

to prepare or cook steamed cassava

now (indicates the arrival of the time of an expected event or the attainment of an expected state, or indicates that before the situation was different but now it has changed; already (indicates the occurrence of an event or the attainment of a state sooner than expected)

to punch or hit something or someone with the palm part of the fist instead of the knuckles; to tag someone

to press down on something

to make an orderly stack of rocks or earth

pus from an infection; to develop pus

having pus

to measure something by armspans

to kiss someone on the lips

spirit of man or animal; the life principle which comes from God

something like one’s subconscious that is believed to leave and come back to one’s body while one is sleeping

begin to develop leaves

prefix with the emphatic set of pronouns to indicate possession (mine/yours/his/hers/ours/theirs), and to indicate non-focus beneficiary outside the core of the clause, i.e. to or for me/you/him/her/us/them; this can also mean from or with me/you/him/her/us/them

to weigh something

a kind of palm tree or its leaves that are used for roofing material

thinness; slenderness (as of cloth, paper, human body)

to make something thin, make something thinner

coconut (six growth stages are terminologically recognized); coconut tree; coconut plantation; copra

you; your (second person singular non-focus pronoun or possessive pronoun)

to play a flute

to put a curse on someone

to go against the wind or current; to go upstream

to take or eat something with a spoon

a small island, islet

to bend something sharply at an angle

become wilted or withered

to go from house to house

to begin to get moss or algae on something

to spit

to be swollen (as someone’s lip that has been stung by a wasp)

to take root; to develop roots; to become established

to dye or make something green

to fish with a pole

to use wood, coconut shells, etc. as fuel in cooking; to add wood to a fire

to grind something, as coffee or corn; to turn something (on an axis)

to see something; to be able to see something

to gather things together in a pile (as coconuts); to save (as money)

to cut something with scissors; cut someone’s hair

kind of lobster

instransitive causative motion within oneself, transition, or change of state becoming

thigh

chisel

to become worn out, old

to measure something by armspans;to extend one’s arms out on both sides

a small triggerfish

to differentiate, set apart

bitter

clothes; anything worn (including jewelry)

to show something to someone; to reveal oneself or cause oneself to be seen

to make something known to someone; to inform

for a rooster to flap its wings before crowing

shovel

to soften something; to become soft or tender; to tenderize something

habitually going somewhere

a place to go

make something deep

allow something to wilt or wither

to turn (as a vehicle)

acridity; bitterness; having an acrid, bitter taste (as soap, baking powder, turmeric, unripe pomelo, cigarettes)

cause something to go downhill

to go downhill, to cause something to go downhill

what is cried over, thing that induces crying

to be full (as a jar, room, container, airplane, etc.); to have more than enough (with regard to wealth)

fill it!

fill it!

sea turtle

a teaching

use the wood as fuel (imper.)

floor levels; a story of a building

generation

from generation to generation

board; plank (usually and inch and a half or less thick)

to be becoming full

to chew

a market

to speed up (when doing something); to do something faster

to go faster, to speed up

to become skilled at doing something quickly; to do something quickly with skill

to cross over a bridge (to a place)

to be shut off (as a light); to go out (as a fire); to be erased

unhusked rice

an umbrella; a bamboo pole with ribs sticking out of it (having white cloth draped around it in an umbrella fashion, used at funerals)

to use an umbrella; to have an umbrella; to cover someone with an umbrella

to tap on something (in order to break it or make a sound); to beat a drum or strike a bell; to tap or beat on metal with a hammer in order to shape it

horsefly (bites)

wing

peso, money; silver

narrow, as objects

a handmade knife with a metal handle

a high-pitched sound made by chicks or baby birds when afraid

long fence-type fish net

bellybutton, navel; the central area of a place

tree, trunk of a tree; capital for investment; beginning, origin, source; reason or cause of something

cause, reason; source; having unhusked grains mixed in with husked grains of rice; start doing something

to whiten something; to become white

white

to fish with a long fence-type net

steamed grated cassava

the pot and the coconut shell with holes in it used for steaming cassava

to have two or more lines, strings, or ropes crossing over each other, always touching and often slightly tangled (as kite strings that have crossed over each other)

fiber in fruits (like fiber in coconut husks, stringy fiber in mangoes)

fibrous

in unison; for things to be in line with each other; simultaneously; parallel to each other

in unison; for things to be in line

a fork in a tree, road, river, etc.

a person having the same name as someone else

a cutting board (as for chopping fish)

spray; a squirt

other, different

except, instead of, other than

to suck on something (as candy, medicine, a mother’s breast)

to be sucked

no comparison; can’t imagine

personal name marker used to indicate that the word that follows is a person’s name; also occurs before five kinship nouns when referring to one’s relative (‘Father’, ‘Mother’, ‘Aunt’, ‘Uncle’, ‘Grandfather/Grandmother’)

a small brush (made from a coconut husk used for scrubbing one’s body or nails when bathing)

elbow

yam bean

an indication; a sign of something; evidence that something is true or happened

one’s perception

a clip (such as a hairpin, clothespin, paper clip); a clamp; a crab’s pincers, etc.

who; whom; what (when asking someone’s name)

whoever

a flute (usually made of bamboo)

to play a flute

to make a mistake; to err; to be wrong; to commit a wrongdoing

to pinch or clamp something between something; to pin something; clip something; to carry something under one’s arm

a curse that is put on someone

the flowing out of a liquid from pressure below

type of fish characterized by squirting water out of its mouth to knock insects off something and into the water

for a liquid to flow out because of pressure below (as from an underground spring, blood from a wound, etc.)

to fall or stumble headfirst

spoon; also a shovel

first person dual non-focus pronoun inclusive of speaker and hearer only: we (dual), our (dual)

to set a trap (for fish, birds, chickens) in place

to snatch; grab at something

to cut cloth (according to a pattern or measurement in order to make a garment)

garments that need to be cut out of cloth

cloth scraps; the leftover pieces of cloth after cutting out a garment

the fat on any kind of meat or fish

delicious

sugarcane

hornet; a large black and yellow wasp with a painful sting

to arrive; to reach or be able to reach a destination

to report someone to the authorities

to press down on something

razor

three

an orderly stacking of rocks or earth (as used for the foundation of a house on the seashore, for a wharf, for a retaining wall surrounding a grave or rice field, etc.)

to make an orderly stack of rocks or earth

ground, dirt; land; soil, country

to plant something

to plant something

to plant something

crying

to cry over something or someone

to cry over something or someone

fast, faster

a cover; a bandage; a door; operculum of a shellfish

a cover; a bandage; a door; operculum of a shellfish

an indigenous confection made of rice and spices, seldom made nowadays (procedure: cook the rice, then mix spices with it, wrap the mixture in a big leaf and keep overnight; it’s ready to eat in the morning)

any instrument used for spraying; a sprayer; also a blowgun

to be or become severed; ripped; separated; come undone (esp. with respect to a place where it has been sewn)

to know something

year; first planting season (when the dry season is about to end in May)

more than a year

every year

a discount (< #Tagalog?)

mole on one’s skin

for one’s head to be pointed

mercy; kindness, compassion

scales; the weight of something

for an island or mountain to supernaturally appear out of the sea;

anything planted, a crop

skill in doing something quickly; swiftness; quickness

a bridge (often made of bamboo or wood)

to know something or someone

a teaching

to point at something or someone, to point out something or someone; a teaching

to cover something; to dress a wound

to cover something; to dress a wound

shoe, shoes

to enter; go inside (a place); to allow or have someone enter

rain