CAÁN

Food.

Continuous or frequent eating, like moth eating clothes or birds feeding in field, ag ⊗, agca ⊗: eat well or in large quantity, cumacaán; do nothing but eat, ⊗ á ⊗; country meal or friends’ gathering, guimong ti ⊗: be able to eat, maca ⊗.

With particle en, syncopated to á, means cooked rice, though taken for any kind of food: álacm toy á canén; caném dedioy; quináncon.

Derivatives: manğán, eat; glutton, mannanğán; refectory, dining room, panğanán; have appetite, macapanğán; feed another, pacanién; host, mamacán; who gave food, namacacán; edible thing, cacanén.

Weft of cloth, pacán: pass it from side to side of warp, ipacán.

To secure lever under timber to overturn it; apply plane to wood, ipacán.