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buteng
/butɔŋ/
 
n.
(butengan, -an) a horse fight
Wrd.Gloss: horse_fight
Pitsa kinsi buwa ka butengan te kuddè.
Maybe date of fifteen will be the horse fight.
Data Qual: is it always horses, or any animal fight?
Eng. horse fight
Online dict status: -
Usage level: M
 
v.
for dogs (pabutengey, pA><ey-) to be fighting
Eng. dogs fighting; fighting
OCM: Ethnozoology (825)
DDP: Animal movement (1.6.4.1)
Online dict status: -
Usage level: M
 
v.
(egpegbuteng, migpegbuteng/impegbuteng, egpeg-) (for children) to fight each other
Data Qual: not correct - this verb is only about animals
Pitew ka te me batè ne migmanliblibulung su egpegbuteng te kalawe-lawe.
Look, the children gathered together because they caused spiders to fight.
Eng. fight
DDP: Animal movement (1.6.4.1)
Online dict status: -
Usage level: M
 
v.
for two animals (esp. horses) (egpabutbutengey, impabutbutengey/migpabutbutengey/pigpabutbutengey, pabutbutengey, pA><ey-rdpCVC-) to fight each other
Mani buwa te egpabutbutengey ka kuddè ke egpekeg-uma?
Why do the horse fight each other when they met?
Pabutbutengey ka miyew wey ambew.
The cat and the rat is fighting.
Eng. fight; duel
OCM: Ethnozoology (825)
DDP: Animal movement (1.6.4.1)
Online dict status: -
Usage level: M

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Last updated: 29/Jul/2014