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Kankanaey
Etymology
From um- + ali.
Pronunciation
Verb
umáli
- to come, to arrive
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms & variants of umali
| Southern / Central
|
| Mt. Province |
Tadian |
umali,
(Banaao, Cadad-anan, Cagubatan, Dacudac, Lenga, Pandayan) omalo
|
| Sabangan |
umali,
(elderly) umali / umari
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| Northern / Applai
|
| Mt. Province |
Sagada |
umali,
(elderly) umali / umari
|
Derived terms
References
- Morice Vanoverbergh (1933) “áli”, in A Dictionary of Lepanto Igorot or Kankanay. As it is spoken at Bauco (Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek; XII), Mödling bei Wien, St. Gabriel, Österreich: Verlag der Internationalen Zeitschrift „Anthropos“, →OCLC, page 19
- Allen, Larry (2021) “áli”, in Kankanaey – English Dictionary, Summer Institute of Linguistics