BALÁY

House: make it, ag ⊗; built house, binaláy; person living alone in house, agbal ⊗ á maymaysá; servant, housefolk, cab ⊗; family, all people living in house, sanğcacab ⊗; house owner, aquin ⊗; dweller, inhabitant, um ⊗.

Animal pen.

Beehive, ⊗ ti yócan.

Hole where animal nests.

Case, box holding anything.

Cover of book or similar, ⊗ ti libro.

To sheath sword, put thing in case, i ⊗; he who, manğí ⊗.

For milk, lard to curdle, ag ⊗; curdled thing, nag ⊗.

To set a thing in gold, i ⊗.

To dwell or be embodied in one, e.g. holiness, strength, malice; binalayán ti singpét, bileg, quinadáques, demonio.

BALÁYANG

Banana whose fruit has many seeds; guitar strings made from trunk fibers.

Tender leaves applied to forehead for headache.

BALAYBÁY

To hang clothes on rope or fence to air, i ⊗; rope or pole, pag ⊗ an.

BALBÁG

Sky blue or light blue: dye blue, ⊗ en.

BALBÁL

Tender pod of mung beans.

To wash out, rinse, ⊗ an.

BALBALDÉS

Burrs slightly longer than amores secos.

See salsalpút.

BALBALÍGA

Mackerel, known fish.

A kind of long beans.

BALBALTÍC

Shrimp species.

Insect resembling tadpole breeding in water jars.

BALCÚT

Roll, bundle of clothes, mats, etc.: wrap or tie thus, ⊗ en; that wrapped, i ⊗; he who, manğ ⊗; determined thing, manğí ⊗.

BALÉD

Embossed rings or protrusions on candlesticks and jewelry.

BALEGBÉG

Swelling of body part from blow or lash.

To beach a boat.

To penetrate, e.g. thorn, mai ⊗.

BALENGBÉNG

Screen, storm door, partition to shelter oneself: shelter thus, ⊗ an.

In the North means to hinder a boat from sailing, mai ⊗.

BÁLES

Payment: to pay, recompense, remunerate good received, um ⊗, ag ⊗.

Vengeance taken on another, penalty of sin, i ⊗, iba ⊗; vengeful, managui ⊗; avenge aggrieved person, um ⊗.

To pay in same coin, return good for good or evil for evil, agbalem ⊗.

Sentence: iti naimbág ng̃a arámid ti pamáles iti ulpit, injury should be repaid with good.

Agba ⊗ la ti tiempo, ta uminit quet tumúdo, proverb on fickle fortune and human life.

Mabalsín, receive one’s deserts, like dying in fight or coming out sheared.

To give thanks, Dios ti um ⊗.

For transplanted plant to recover vigor.

BALÉTE

Strangler fig tree growing in stony grounds and masonry walls; cords called ayon issue from branches used for bowstrings.

BALIÁD

Resale: retail trade, ag ⊗; resell quickly to increase profit, i ⊗.

To vary, change opinion doing opposite, e.g. deciding to go South then turning North, buying from another, etc.

To shift load from one shoulder to other.

BALIBÁD

Mistake: to err, ma ⊗.

To turn a boat, agbal ⊗.

BALÍC

Turn, change, variation: for wind to shift, ag ⊗.

To walk back and forth peddling goods.

Turns of alligator or wrestler, agbalic ⊗.

To retract words, i ⊗, ⊗ en ti saó.

BALICANGCÁNG

Woman’s hair bun shaped like roll.

See calangcáng.

BALICÁS

Pronunciation: to pronounce, name a word, ⊗ en; pronounce name of Jesus, balicsém ti nagan ni Jesus.

Apag ⊗, in an instant.

In a word, in summary, iti maymaysá á ⊗.

Syllable.

BALICONĞCÓNG

To coil, curl up, ag ⊗; coiled thing, na ⊗.

Bread roll, binaliconğcóng á tinápay.

BALICTÁD

To overturn or turn upside down anything, ⊗ en.

For sick person to toss in pain, agbali ⊗.

BALICUTCÚT

To double up body, like one whipped or suffering cold; ag ⊗ á sumaplit ó sapliten.

BALÍGA

Weaver’s sword/batten knife.

Long ridge shaped like knife, bimmalign.

BALIGAOGÁO

Distraction: be distracted in what one does, thinks, mai ⊗.

Vagabond.

BALÍN

To be able, be possible, ma ⊗; power, pannaca ⊗; almighty, mannaca ⊗ ámin; impossible, di ma ⊗; have power, maca ⊗.

To annihilate, mama ⊗; iti Dios laeng̃ á aoán ti cayátna.

To become or turn into another thing, ag ⊗; e.g. man sinning becomes enemy of God.

To reduce to less, convert into another, transform, ⊗ en; baliném á bassit ti adú.

To consider good or bad.

To feign, idolize, balin ⊗ énda á Dios ti saán á Dios.

Natural character of a thing, caba ⊗.

Custom of one, caba ⊗.

To transform into different things, agbalin ⊗.

BALÍNG̃A

To mishear what another said, ma ⊗.

To reply thinking they spoke to him: na ⊗ ac, me he equivocado.

See tal-ling̃o.

BALINĞAGTÁ

Heavy, strong wood good for building: heartwood is black, yielding camagón.

BALINGANÁOAY

To glimpse navigators rare thing in sea, like sea serpent or large fish: considered bad omen.

BALINGASÁY

Tree like camíring, but not harmful, and fruit is eaten.

BALING̃ATÓ

Split canes placed facing each other to catch fish called dalág.

BALING̃ÍT

To shake someone pulling shoulders or hair, bal ⊗ an.

BALINGLÍNG

To invert, turn inside out placing one end where other was, e.g. bow of boat where stern was.

To put shirt inside out, ⊗ en.

BALINSUÉC

To stand on head with feet up, ag ⊗; put a thing thus, ⊗ en; he who, manğ ⊗.

BALINTUÁG

To capsize, overturn like bells ringing upside down: for boy to somersault landing on feet, ag ⊗.

BALIOES-OÉS

Tree whose fruit resembles cacao; eaten for lack of chocolate, though laxative.