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OK Marc ... how long HAVE you been up constantly without any sleep? Cheers.
DLR
PS: OTOH, this should definitely provide a topic for those K-listers who are
bored with history.
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From: Kapampangan Language and Culture
To: KAPAMPANGAN-L
Subject: ALK: Insects in Kapampangan
Date: Thursday, October 23, 1997 11:08AM

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Luid Cabalen,

Nanu yng "insect" queng quecatamung amanuan sisuan? (What is "insect" in
our mother tongue?)

Atin cu caclase qng i scul aus mi cayu "durun"? Nanu na casi yng
"durun"? (I had a high school classmate whom we called "durun"? What is
"durun" again?)

E cu atatandanan nun apisabi ta na ini, pero areni reng balu cung
"insects" queng Kapampangan. Sacali y Bergan~o atin ya naman listann,
dapot ing listaan cu ibat ya keng atatandanan cu.

(I don't remember if we have discussed this before, but here are the
insects I know in Kapampangan. Bergan~o might have a list too, but my
list is purely from what I remember.)

durun ??
culiglig cicada?
ipas cockroach
panas ant
lango fly
yamuk mosquito
lipactung locust?
tulang dragonfly
tulang carayum ??
babagwa spider (not really an insect?)
suldut bedbug
garapata (Sp.?) tick
pulgas (Sp.?) flea
salagubang ?
salaginto ?
ane termite
camaru (Sp.?)
cutu louse

Nanu pa? (What else?)

MARC

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On Thu, 23 Oct 1997 11:08:00 -0400 "Reyes, Yvonne" <yre...@kilstock.com>
writes:
>durun
> grasshopper

Yvonne,

E cu na atatandana ot ausan mi yang durun. E ne man magaling queng
martial arts.

I don't remember why we called him "grasshopper." He was no martial arts
expert.

Marc

P.S. Speaking of cutu, balu mung deng cutu aulu da ing malaria? Agpang
quetang a basa cu, metung mung "thimbleful" a mabie a cutu ing cailangan
mung alducan.

Speaking of lice, do you know that lice can cure malaria? According to
what I read, you need only take one thimbleful of live lice.

Manolo Gatbonton

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Ala pa palang menicua quing camaru ne? Oini ing cacung paquibat: mole
cricket.

Yanapamu

Manolo

Armando Regala wrote:
> My answers are in brackets.
>
> durun [locust]
> culiglig cicada? [I think this is 'cricket']


> ipas cockroach
> panas ant
> lango fly
> yamuk mosquito

> lipactung locust? [grasshopper]


> tulang dragonfly
> tulang carayum ??
> babagwa spider (not really an insect?)
> suldut bedbug
> garapata (Sp.?) tick
> pulgas (Sp.?) flea
> salagubang ?
> salaginto ?
> ane termite
> camaru (Sp.?)

> cutu louse (lice)

Ariel Malig

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At 10:59 AM 10/23/97 -0400, you wrote:
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>

>Luid Cabalen,
>
>Nanu yng "insect" queng quecatamung amanuan sisuan? (What is "insect" in
>our mother tongue?)
>
>

....................................Insektu.........ale ?

ariel


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K. Marc,
Ali ku la balui nung nanu la lagyu!, pero pamiyalungan mila naman
kanita.............toy


At 12:39 PM 10/23/97 -0400, you wrote:
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>

>On Thu, 23 Oct 1997 08:08:17 -0700 Paul Tiglao <pti...@coyote.csusm.edu>
>writes:


>> < K a p a m p a n g a n >
>>

>>Oreni deng hula ku:
>>
>>salagubang ? -- <color><param>ffff,0000,0000</param>elephant
>>beetle
>
>Titoy,
>
>Ing elephant beetle aliwa ing "uwang"; acalinguan queng iyabe nandin.
>Ampon nanu no casi detang "click beetle"; detang potang macabaligtad ya,
>mag-snap ya?
>
>Marc


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Armando Regala

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My answers are in brackets.

Mandy

durun [locust]
culiglig cicada? [I think this is 'cricket']
ipas cockroach
panas ant
lango fly
yamuk mosquito
lipactung locust? [grasshopper]
tulang dragonfly
tulang carayum ??
babagwa spider (not really an insect?)
suldut bedbug
garapata (Sp.?) tick
pulgas (Sp.?) flea
salagubang ?
salaginto ?
ane termite
camaru (Sp.?)
cutu louse (lice)

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Nepo, Marc & Lou [nee] Tanhueco

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Ayup-ayupan? Or is this another kind of insect?

MARC

On Thu, 23 Oct 1997 14:27:10 -0700 Ariel Malig
<ari...@rosewood.his.ucsf.EDU> writes:
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>

>At 10:59 AM 10/23/97 -0400, you wrote:

>> < K a p a m p a n g a n >
>>

>>Luid Cabalen,
>>
>>Nanu yng "insect" queng quecatamung amanuan sisuan? (What is
>"insect" in
>>our mother tongue?)
>>
>>

>.....................................Insektu.........ale ?
>
>ariel

Alex Dizon

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Kutang ng Merc Nepo:

>Ayup-ayupan? Or is this another kind of insect?


This is another kind of insect or rather a class of insects
known as moths.

Alex

Christine C. Jose

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>Ayup-ayupan? Or is this another kind of insect?
>

>MARC

I think ayup-ayupan are the little soft winged, annoying insects that fly
around the lights. I remember one entering my ear while I was playing
mahjong during my visit in Mabt.

Christine

Marc Nepo

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Alex,

Acu memialung cu. A pialung mo ya naman queng beach, ali?

MARC


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Subject: Re: ALK: Insects in Kapampangan
Author: Alex Dizon <ald...@fdic.gov> at Internet-Express
Date: 10/24/97 10:28 AM


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Paul Tiglao wrote:

>K. Marc,
>Ali ku la balui nung nanu la lagyu!, pero pamiyalungan mila naman
>kanita.............toy

Ninu naman kekayu deng memyalung kobung-kobung?
Cutang: Nanu ya qng inglis ing "kobung-kobung"?

Alex

Alex Dizon

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What's the HUGE beetles/cockroaches that you find on the walls? I just
remember going to the bathroom one night and seeing this HUGE bug on the
wall...I wasn't sure if it would fly at me or not..I just remember thinking,
"Get out of the bathroom before it attacks you....." You wouldn't call it an
ipis, would you?....we all know what that looks like....you only see them
there......I don't think I can even remember how to describe it....I just
remember them being big....

Cher

Reyes, Yvonne

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Ayup-ayupan? Or is this another kind of insect?

i do not believe so .. i think it is the general reference to winged
insects. but i could be wrong.

i just got corrected regarding the proper usage of "macaratang" and
"macapunta"

thank you teachers.

yvonne
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From: Nepo, Marc & Lou [nee] Tanhueco
To: KAPAMP...@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM


Subject: Re: ALK: Insects in Kapampangan

Date: Friday, October 24, 1997 1:47AM

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Ayup-ayupan? Or is this another kind of insect?

MARC

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Luid Yvonne,

Ayyyy!!! Cabuysitan mong babae ca ! :)) Mayap namu pala e cu icuang
mequialung queca, nung ali pala, mas maranun cung me-calbu queca

Ingkung Manolo
Casalukuyang maintun "balang-kari" keng paligid

Reyes, Yvonne wrote:
> Luid ca matuang manolo:
>
> quecami naman ... yng gagamitan mi buak - yng tutu na nita paralan mu
> yta ba mi lang agunut deng caquialung ming buysit. waaahhh.
>
> yng buysit a babai,
> yvonne

Alex Dizon

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Marc,

Ecu balu nung deng kobung-kobung makapagdatun la keng
balas calupa na queng beach. Deni ata, magdatun lamu
queng gabun a mapinu. Queng inglis, awsan dalang "antlion".

Mamangan lang panas.
Macananu dong darakpan deng panas?
Gagawa lang trap a cawangis "vortex".
Ustung ing panas menabu ya queng "vortex", dedbol ne.


Alex

> Alex,

> Acu memialung cu. A pialung mo ya naman queng beach, ali?

> MARC

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Ustu ca pin, Alex. Keng wet sand ela macagauang vortex.

MARC

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Subject: Re: ALK: Insects in Kapampangan

Author: Alex Dizon <ald...@fdic.gov> at Internet-Express

Date: 10/24/97 3:48 PM

Reyes, Yvonne

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Luid ca matuang manolo:

quecami naman ... yng gagamitan mi buak - yng tutu na nita paralan mu
yta ba mi lang agunut deng caquialung ming buysit. waaahhh.

yng buysit a babai,
yvonne
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From: Manolo Gatbonton
To: KAPAMP...@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM


Subject: Re: ALK: Insects in Kapampangan

Date: Friday, October 24, 1997 5:05PM

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Luid Alex ampong Cabalen,

Metung ne namang amanu ing abalu cu quecayu. Casi, quecami
Candaba ing
aus mi careti, "balang-kari" ecu balu nung nanu ya penibatan na pero
isna ne karayu keng "kobung-kobung" ne?
Capilan ya pamu me feauture king tv ing insectung iti.

Macananu dong darakpan?
Magtoto cang pisi king o sinulad king libutad ning trap a geua
da,
Igutan me eng bagya-bagya caibat neng sigmit ing pisi.

Manolo

Alex Dizon wrote:
> Marc,
>
> Ecu balu nung deng kobung-kobung makapagdatun la keng
> balas calupa na queng beach. Deni ata, magdatun lamu
> queng gabun a mapinu. Queng inglis, awsan dalang "antlion".
>
> Mamangan lang panas.
> Macananu dong darakpan deng panas?
> Gagawa lang trap a cawangis "vortex".
> Ustung ing panas menabu ya queng "vortex", dedbol ne.

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Luid Cabalen,


Oh, I remember another one...

Anyang malati ku, atin lang aus detang kakyalung ku king "Praying
Mantis" .... its called: "Manganak Ubingan". E ku mu balu nung bakit
do ausan makanyan ita. Siguru, mali la, pero ita ing inaus da king
insect a ita.


Bill

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Luid Ca Cong Marc,
Ala tamung generic term kareng insects, dapot dakal tamu balung insecto.

Ing durun yapin ing locust.

Atin cu pang aragdag:
cansasamba - praying mantis
canabsi - grasshopper
buanbuan (bombuan) - bumblebee
tatabuan - wasp
aniguan - wild honeybees
putiukan - honeybee
tamumu - hornet

Reni na pa^
Siuala ding Meangubie


At 10:59 AM 10/23/97 -0400, Nepo, Marc & Lou [nee] Tanhueco wrote:
> < K a p a m p a n g a n >
>

>Luid Cabalen,
>
>Nanu yng "insect" queng quecatamung amanuan sisuan? (What is "insect" in
>our mother tongue?)
>

>Atin cu caclase qng i scul aus mi cayu "durun"? Nanu na casi yng
>"durun"? (I had a high school classmate whom we called "durun"? What is
>"durun" again?)
>
>E cu atatandanan nun apisabi ta na ini, pero areni reng balu cung
>"insects" queng Kapampangan. Sacali y Bergan~o atin ya naman listann,
>dapot ing listaan cu ibat ya keng atatandanan cu.
>
>(I don't remember if we have discussed this before, but here are the
>insects I know in Kapampangan. Bergan~o might have a list too, but my
>list is purely from what I remember.)
>
>durun ??
>culiglig cicada?

>ipas cockroach
>panas ant
>lango fly
>yamuk mosquito
>lipactung locust?

>tulang dragonfly
>tulang carayum ??
>babagwa spider (not really an insect?)
>suldut bedbug
>garapata (Sp.?) tick
>pulgas (Sp.?) flea
>salagubang ?
>salaginto ?
>ane termite
>camaru (Sp.?)
>cutu louse
>

>Nanu pa? (What else?)
>
>MARC

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Yvonne wrote:

Luid ca matuang manolo: quecami naman ... yng gagamitan mi buak -
yng tutu na nita paralan mu yta ba mi lang agunut deng caquialung
ming buysit. waaahhh.

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Manahimik naku sana uling sinabi nang Yvonne kanaku 'patugut ka'
oneng ikit ku nenaman ining sulat a ini purmeru ing pisasabyan da
deng kobung-kobung oba't miras ne naman keng buak. Mekikbat ne i
Matuang Manolo pero ala ya pang sinabi i Magi-noo-ng Dave N.

Lolo Mandy

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Nanung pisasabian yu? Melili ku yata...

Siuala ding Meangubie

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Kitang nang Mike:

[Nanung pisasabian yu? Melili ku yata...]

Balamu yata pisasabian da nung bakit ala lang buak deng
kobung-kobung.

Mandy

Nepo, Marc & Lou [nee] Tanhueco

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Mike, we were talking about "cobung-cobung."

MARC

On Thu, 6 Nov 1997 13:05:34 +0800 siuala ding meangubie
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>Nanung pisasabian yu? Melili ku yata...
>

>Siuala ding Meangubie

Paul Tiglao

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Atching Yvonne,
Kasanting na ning kekang sense of humor! Misyado yang prolific ing kekang
gray matter at pane kang manakit humor maski nanung bage! Kasaya siguro
keng pamilya yo. Ika, I Ariel, ampon I k. Conrad palagi kayung atin
sasabyan a maka-timan, adyang patse maging siryus nang bagya ing
pisasabyan. Madalas yu kung apa-pakaili! Siguro mababo ku tula, pero
salamat kareng dyoks yu!..........

Yanapa,
Titoy

At 09:39 AM 11/6/97 -0500, you wrote:
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>

>Luid caiung cabalen a mengalili:
>
> yng pisasabian - kobung-kobung at deng miaaliuang paralan nung
>macananu la aracap o apalual quetang carelang "vortex" - - sabi cu ..
>quetang lugal mi yng gagamitan mi buac.
>
> nangcai memusit no reng caiabe tamu at bugn baquit canu
>mibabalic cung palagui queng buac. ensoonensoport.
>
>ytamu fu.
>
>yvonne
> ----------
>From: Armando Regala


>To: KAPAMP...@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
>Subject: Re: ALK: Insects in Kapampangan

>Date: Thursday, November 06, 1997 4:15AM


>
> < K a p a m p a n g a n >
>

>Kitang nang Mike:
>
>[Nanung pisasabian yu? Melili ku yata...]
>
>Balamu yata pisasabian da nung bakit ala lang buak deng
>kobung-kobung.
>
>Mandy
>

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