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Bisayan grammar and notes on Bisayan rhetoric and poetics and Filipino dialectology

Note 54 — Parts of Speech.

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anáy (she-hog), ánay (before)

apó (grandson or grand-daughter), ápò (a thing fully introduced)

áyao (distributive possession), ayáo (no, imperative)

bábà (mouth), babá (to carry a thing on the back)

babáye (woman), babayé (female not person)

baga (red-hot coal or wood), bága (lung), bagá (like)

bálay (turn), baláy (house)

bálod (a kind of dove), balód (wave)

bálos (return), balós (revenge)

bánus (abundant, thick), banús (to scrub)

bárang̃ (an amulet), baráng (knot)

bayáo (brother-in-law), báyao (to lift up)

bucád (flower), búcad (to dig up)

búhat (work), buhát (to raise)

buhi (alive), buhi (losse)

buláo (yellow), búlao (to provoke a stranger)

búrong54 (fog), buróng (to throw)

busà (reprimand), búsà (therefore)

cóbal (thread), cobál (corn, callosity)

comót (sinked), cómot (quick)

dósol (pain of the stomack), dosól (despective form of “cáon”, to eat)

hóron (to pass the night), horón (farm)

igo, (just), igô (to be hit)

lága (flame), lagà (cooked)

láya (a net for fishing), layà (to wither), layâ (withered)

laláqui (man), lalaquí (male, not person)

látos (reaching, overtaking), latós (to whip)

lúya (weakness), luyà (lime), luyâ (restlessness), luy-a (ginger)

muláy (play), múlay (to teach)

obós (low), óbos (to exhaust)

usá or usâ (one), úsa (to marvel)

úpa (reward), upá (rice chaff)

pátag (plane), patág (a kind of basket)

píli (a tree so called), pilì (to select)

pálad (palm), palád (a fish)

pusò (flower of banana), pusô (rice especially cooked)

pusâ (pounded), pusà (to wash the feet)

púto (a dainty so called), pútò (partition), putó (last son or daughter)

sábot (agreement), sabót (filement or to understand)

sácay, (passenger or companion on a boat), sacáy (to embark)

sócot (frequent), socót (to collect)

súso (teat), susò (thickset), susô (a mollusk so called)

tíao (joke), tiáo (maniac)

tíma (finished), timá (uneven)

túba (a plant so called), tubâ (wine from cocoanut or nipa)

tubó (sugar-cane), túbò (to grow), etc.

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