EM-ÉM
To close lips tightly, ag ⊗, ⊗ an: Castá in ⊗ an d met-lét, said of miser hoarding money without spending.
See quitóm.
To close lips tightly, ag ⊗, ⊗ an: Castá in ⊗ an d met-lét, said of miser hoarding money without spending.
See quitóm.
To harbor hatred, rancor in heart.
See ennép.
(Spanish word).
Embargo or attachment of property by court order.
To take authority an animal or object on own initiative for public service.
Thrift in spending: spend judiciously, little by little, ⊗ en.
Some take it for stinginess or misery in spending; miser, manğ ⊗.
See imut, iput.
Calm, meekness, affability, restfulness: sweet, affable, na ⊗.
See talná, tacnéng.
Irregular active verb meaning to go: ⊗ ca, ⊗ camí, go, let us go.
Also adverb meaning already: umáy, comes; umáy ⊗, already comes; matúrog, sleeps; matúrog ⊗, already sleeps.
When joined to first person singular, converts to on: umáyon, I already come; matúrogon, I already sleep.
Particle forming passive verbs.
(See multiple uses in grammar).
See in, mapán, áy.
Large violin or lute used in antiquity.
Mutter between teeth of proud and lazy person; grumble, ag ⊗, um ⊗.
Stammerer speaking poorly from tongue numbness.
To part quarrelers, ag ⊗; step between separating them, mamag ⊗.
See sina.
Water filtered through sand, boiled to extract salt.
See upáya.
Cardinal number meaning six.
Inner reservation of feeling: to reserve, keep in heart what is felt, especially hatred, ⊗ en.
See em-empén.
(ancient) Rice so called.
To restrain, contain, mitigate hunger, anger, weeping, laughter or any passion, ⊗ en.
To gag person or animal to prevent shouting.
To shade light, glare, placing screen.
Division or part of land: divide land, ⊗ en.
Lance with two barbs.
Grain or pip without substance.
Word or deed without substance.
To subside swelling, umpés.
(ancient) Said of woman completely lacking milk to nurse.
See apsút, apsát.
Vanity, pride; or spirit suggesting luxury and show: have such quality, ag ⊗.
See albaháca.
Latin word used in sense of arguing, refuting with reasons: to argue, ag ⊗; against whom argued, ⊗ en.
See púsit, túbar.
(ancient) Respect, reverence, courtesy: heed with fear, not dare approach person, ma ⊗.
(ancient) To exhume a corpse to transfer it, ⊗ en.
To equalize, be suitable: mai ⊗: does not suit, is not right, e.g. setting gold jewel with lead, or commoner mingling with nobility.
Consumption: to waste away living being; become lean, exhausted, umrés.
Said also of waning of cut tree when drying.
See quebbét.
(ancient) To go all together to do something to finish quickly, ag ⊗.
To shrink, e.g. wood drying, um ⊗.
Broom to clean clothes, footwear: brush a thing, ⊗ en.
Desire: to desire something: covetous, desiring, na ⊗.
To imitate works of another through emulation, umsém.
See calicágum, tarigágay.
(Spanish word).
Fashion; taste, elegance in dress, manners: elegant person or thing, na ⊗.
To compress flesh tightening cord, ma ⊗ an.
See el-él.
Paddy grains remaining in milled rice: adú ti ⊗ tóy á bagás, this rice has many unhusked grains.
Defect or fault in speech.
Errata in writing, book: having defect, na ⊗.
Refrain: no hay trigo ó arroz sin paja, ó el que mucho habla en algo yerra, aoán ti bagás á aoán ⊗ na.
See attúcao.
This letter, which natives pronounce as p, does not exist in the Ilocano language.
Nevertheless, some Spanish words beginning with said letter have been adopted, such as familias, fiar, fiesta, firma, etc.; but since they give these words the same meaning they have in Spanish, they are not included here as unnecessary.
(ancient) To attack suddenly one another, ag ⊗.
(ancient) For pot, kettle to crack over fire from being worn, ma ⊗.
To wear lace on shirt over chest, ag ⊗.
See agáag.
Debris, timbers washed down by river flood or found at sea.
Lost person or animal without owner: quinábatco tóy á ubíng, I found this lost child.
Delay: to arrive late, arrive at the very last, ma ⊗: pacaoaném ti ⊗ co, pardon my lateness.
See bayág.
To wrestle in game or embracing, ag ⊗.
See rubbuát.
See guebbuáy.
Hoe to dig ground.
To be disappointed; arrive late, e.g. going to feast after it ended; seeking person who just left, mai ⊗.
(ancient) Descent or lineage outside marriage.
See pútut, tabuénğ.
See rubbuát.
Surface sand, earth, stone: silt left by flood.
Earth, garbage filling hole.
To hill up plant, cover hole with earth, ag ⊗.
See tabon.
Mound: to heap garbage, ⊗ en; pile up troubles, chores, miseries, ma ⊗.
See dalúson.
(ancient) To tie sugarcane so it grows thick.
To pull up grass, rice, ⊗ en.
See párot, gánut.