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walag
/walag/
v_rt.
“chase_fish”
 
v.
for a group of people (egwewalag, migwewalag/inwewalag, agent, eg><ø-rdpCV-) to place nets across a stream or low river and then go upstream and work their way down, moving rocks and stones so as to frighten any fish downstream and thus into the nets. (egwewalahan, migwewalahan/inwewalagan/pigwewalagan, location, eg><an-rdpCVC-)
Wrd.Gloss: chase_fish
Kuwa kid e ka egwewalag seeyè te weyig.
Let's go to the river to chase fish.
Eng. fish, catch; fish, chase
Online dict status: -
Usage level: R

Updated by: RJH,AAA,QDL
Last updated: 13/Oct/2009