abaca (fibers), hemp, Musa textilis afraid ~ be afraid [stative]; fear [verb]; ; fright [noun] afternoon all / every angry, anger ankle answer, reply anus ash, ashes (as in an extinguished fire) ashamed, be ashamed back (of a person) bad (the opposite of good) banana, Musa sapientum (the fruit rather than the plant) bark (of a tree) bathe, take a bath, wash oneself belly betel chew (preparation), quid betel leaf betel nut, areca nut big, large (the opposite of small) bird (generic) bite (as to remove a piece for eating) bitter black blanket blind blood blow on (with the mouth, as to make a fire burn) body boil boil, abscess bone (condylar | of people of animals) brain breakfast breast ~ breasts (female) burn [v-intr]; burn down; be burning bury, inter butt, buttock ~ buttocks, posterior butterfly buy, purchase call (someone), summon, call out (w/ voice) camote, sweet potato, Ipomoea batatas canoe carabao, water buffalo charcoal cheek chest (of body) chicken / fowl (domesticated) child (as kin), offspring; son/daughter chin choose, select, pick climb up (as a tree), go up (stairs) cloud (white) coconut (generic), Cocos nucifera cold; chilly (of weather) comb (generic, for hair) cook [v] cotton cough count (enumerate) crocodile crow (blackbird) cry, weep [v] cut (up), slice (meat), cut (rope) day, daytime deaf debt deep deer delouse, remove lice, pick lice difficult, hard dig (a hole) dirty (general sense) dog dream drink [v] dry [adj], not wet dull (of a knife ~ blade), not sharp dust ear earth (soil, dirt), ground, land earthquake east eat eel egg eggplant, Solanum melongena eight (8) excrement, feces ~ faeces eye eyebrow, eyebrows eyelash, eyelashes face fall (down), drop [intr] far, distant, remote fast, quick, swift fat, grease fat, obese father feather (down VS plume) fence fight, quarrel [v] finger ~ fingers = digit + toe fingernail, nail fire fish (generic) five (5) floor flower fly [intr - as a bird] fly, housefly forehead forest, woods forget four (4) fragrant, smelling good frog (generic) fruit (generic); FRUIT (as category) full (to the brim ~ packed) full, sated, satisfied (after eating) ginger, Zingiber officinale give good (generic), nice, well, fine green hair: on head hand hard (not soft) he | she [short nominative ~ intimate form] he | she, as for him ~ her [long form] head hear heart (the organ) heavy heel here (near me) hide (so as to not be seen) his | hers hold (in hand), grasp hot (as weather) VS hot (to touch) house how many? hundred (100) hungry; hunger hunt (for game) husband I [short nominative ~ intimate form] I, as for me [long form] if intestines (large vs small), guts itch, itchy kick kill knee know (someone ~ a person) ladle (native, as of coconut shell) lake laugh leaf, leaves learn left (hand ~ direction) lie, deceive, tell a fib ~ falsehood ~ untruth lightning lime lip, lips liver loincloth, g-string lonely long (not short) lose [lost], misplace louse (chicken lice ~ flea), mite louse (head lice; lice in hair) lungs ~ lung man, adult male many, much mat (for sleeping) medicine, drug monkey moon morning mortar (for pulverizing grain) mosquito mother mountain mouth mud my name narrow (as a path) near, close (by ~ to) neck needle new night nine (9) nipa (palm), Nypa fruticans none, nothing; not have; not exist; there is not noon (midday) nose not ~ will not VERB not, is not (so) [negative of a noun] now, already offspring (i.e: one's child) old (object ~ thing) old (person) one (in counting) (1) other, another (of a different kind) our (exclusive) our (inclusive), all of ours our, my and your, yours and mine (dual) paddle (for canoe), oar pain, ache | painful, hurts, be in pain palm (of hand) path, trail pay peanut ~ peanuts, Arachis hypogaea penis person ~ people | "man" = human being pestle (for rice or other foodstuffs) pig pillow plant [v] play, amuse oneself pot (cooking) pound (rice) pull (to move s.t.) push (to move s.t.) raft rain rainbow raincloud (rain cloud) rat rattan, Calamus sp. red repeat, do (X) again return: go home rib ~ ribs rice: cooked rice: husk rice: husked, milled, uncooked rice: plant (unhusked, raw, growing in the paddy) rice: wine right (direction, side ~ hand) ring (for finger) river roof (thatch) root rope rotten rub run salt sand say; said scar scratch (an itch with fingernails) sea see sell seven (7) sew shadow sharp (as edge of blade) sheath, scabbard (for bolo, knife or sword) shore, seashore short (object) short (person) shoulder ~ shoulders sibling (generic): brother ~ sister sit (as on the ground or a chair) six (6) skin skinny, thin (person) sky slave sleep small, little (object) smoke (as from fire) [n] smooth snake sole (of the foot) soup, broth sour (acidic) space-under-house span, handspan (8") span, handspan (i.e., the full outstretched hand, from thumb to little finger) spider spit [v] squeeze (in hand), wring (wet clothes) stab, pierce stand star steal stick-to, adhere [v]; sticky [adj] stone, rock story straight (as a trail ~ stick) string, twine strong suck sugarcane, Saccharum officinarum summit, mountain top, peak swallow (down) sweat, perspiration sweet swidden, dry rice field swim tail (of land animal) tear, tears, teardrop ten (10) termite, white ant, Isoptera that (far away or out of sight), yon that (near you ~ hearer) their, theirs there (far), yonder (out of sight) there (not far, near you ~ hearer) they, as for them [3rd person plural long form] they, as for them [3rd person plural short nominative] thick (material, as paper or bark) thigh thin (object ~ materials) thirst, thirsty this (near me ~ speaker) thorn (plant); bone (fish) thousand (1,000) three (3) throat throw (at), toss (as a stone ~ ball); hit (with a projectile) throw away, discard thunder tie-up, tether an animal; fasten tomorrow tongue tooth, teeth (in general) tree (generic) trousers, pants turn-around (as to face in the opposite direction); revolve [v-intr] turtle (land ~ river turtle) two (2) urine; piss vagina, vulva vein, artery, blood vessel vomit [v] wait walk wall (of house) wash (clothes), launder wash-the-hands water water container (bamboo) water jar / waterjar (earthenware) waterfall we all, as for all of us [1st person plural inclusive long form] we all, as for all of us [1st person plural inclusive short form] we, as for us [1st person plural exclusive long form] weak weave (basketry ~ mat), plait weave (cloth) west wet what? when? where? white who? wide, broad widow, widower wife wind (as a cool wind on a hot day), air, breeze wing (of bird) winnow, sift rice wipe (as a child's dirty face) woman, adult female wood (generic), timber (unprocessed) work worm, earthworm year yellow yesterday you and I [1st person dual nominative long form] you, thou [2nd person singular short nominative] you, thou [long form] you, ye [2nd person plural long form] your, thy your, yours (plural)