Meaning:break open (ripe fruit); dissect, carve (a slaughtered animal carcass)
Comments:pɔʔiʔl-inthɛ:s-u-N (cucumber-ABS break open-3P-1sA) I'm going to break open the cucumber; phak-ʔinthe:s-u (pig-ABS carve-3P) He has cut up the pig.
Comments: 2) ko:co:-llekumʔra:nthɛ:ksuN I forced open the dog's mouth; cf. hɔmmaʔ,pha:Nmaʔ.
Entry:thiʔmaʔ, -thiʔr-/-thiʔ-
Grammar:vt.
Meaning:1) infect someone with one's bad habits; 2) afflict by ingestion of taboo body parts of animals
Comments:1) yaNsarumbɛ-llekɛ-dhiʔr-ɛrǝcǝ (third born-ERG 2-infect-PT DEPR) It seems you've picked up some of third-born's bad habits 2) hɛndzaʔbitcha-rewaʔ-reku-laNca-m:mɛ-nu-nɛnhɛnaNbhɛlleadhiʔ.waʔ-reku-lso:ʔl,phak-rɛ-n,mɛndaʔrɛ-n-naNca-m:mɛ-nu-nɛn.ku-lap,nɛsik,ku-mi,nɛghɔ. (children-ERG chicken-GEN its-claw eat-INF NEG-be alright-NEG because 1-afflict. chicken-GEN its-tongue, pig-GEN-ABS, goat-GEN-ABS-too eat-INF NEG-be alright-NEG. its-wing, brain, its-tail, nose.) It is not good for children to eat the claw of a chicken because it will afflict you. It is also not good to eat the tongue of a chicken, a pig or a goat. The wing, the brain, the tail, the nose.; It is held that: (a) ingestion of a chicken's claw or wing by a child will cause illegible handwriting, poor penmanship and manual co-ordination, (b) ingestion of an animal's tongue by a child may result in some sort of speech defect or peculiar speech habit, (c) ingestion of the brain will cause the child's thinking to become like the animal's whose brain it has eaten with the obvious resultant mental impairment, (d) ingestion of the tail will afflict the child with superfluous swaying movements in his gait and gestures and, especially in later life, in the comportment of his head, (e) ingestion of an animal's ears will afflict the child with uncontrollable and often ungrounded fears in later life and a general disposition to paranoia; waʔ-reku-laN-illethiʔr-u (chicken-GEN its-claw-ERG afflict-3P) He's been afflicted by a chicken's claw.
