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gotì 1v To roast separate kernels of corn in the fire so they pop like pop corn. The popped kernels are picked up with bamboo tongs and eaten after ashes are shaken off. [Popping corn in a pan would be considered sandagon or “fried” but when kernels pop, oggogoti-on. Popping corn in a pan would be called ogbobotubotu.] 2deriv n Roasted kernels, esp. of corn Ka goti-an no agoloy, igpako-on to iam no nig-anak oyow ogkabongkag ka langosa no nigmalibuson to diralom. The roasted kernels of corn is fed to the [mother] who has newly given birth so that the blood clots will be discharged [from her body.] [Roasted kernels of corn are fed to a new mother so that the clotted blood from her uterus will be discharge from her body.]

kapunganan n 1One’s posterity, decendent. [Ocring said in his dialect kapunganan would refer to descendents a long time removed; pinanganak would be used of more immediate descendents.] see: pinanganak; see fr.: anak 10. 2A physical characteristic which is passed down from one generation to the next, such as a malady or outgrowth of the body. [DB says that if a disease or physical malady such as swelling of the knees is is experienced by another generation people will say that is kapungan ta -- that is, they conceive that it has been passed down. (DB 21/Jan/2006)]