Cultural Terms of The Ivatan People
- uve, ubi, sudi- yam; staple crop
- sudi- taro
- wakay- sweet potato
- bulyas- onions
- baka- cow
- kaddin- goat
- kayvayvanan- friendship; cooperative work by a community which starts at the blow of a shell horn called a vodiadong
- payohoan- helping one another; work club of teenagers who alternate their shifts
- paluwa; chinarem; tataya- three boats used for fishing
- kabbata- legends
- lagi- lyric folk songs
- kalusan- working songs
- sisyavak- humorous anecdotes and tales
- kabbuni- riddles
- pananaban- proverbs
- vachi- song leader
- mais- corn
- palay- rice plant
- dukay- sprouted mung beans
- rakarakanen- vegetables
- hagsa- an extinct wild deer
- vulaw a bagu- wild boar
- tatus- coconut crabs
- lakasan- tops of wooden trunks used for storing cloth and other valuables serve as benches
- dulang- low dining table
- bangku- low bench
- rahaung, camarin- a storeroom for larger farm equipment such as plows, harrows, sleds, card, and the ox-drawn pole used for clearing off sweet potatoes and other vines from fields being prepared for re-cultivation
- vuyavuy- a small palm growing usually on Batanes coastal hills
- talugung- a kind of conical hat woven from strips made from the stalk of a local plant called nini
- pasikin- small bamboo or rattan baskets worn on the back
- lukoy- bolo knife
- suhut- sheath of a bolo knife
- suut, vakul- a head-and-back covering woven from the stripped leaves of banana or the vuyavuy
- alat- baskets
- batulinaw- a necklace made of hollow globules (1½ cm. in diameter) interspersed with smaller pieces of gold in floral patterns and held together by a string made of fiber
- tamburin- an all-gold necklace whose beads are smaller and more ornate than the batulinaw, and lockets
- seseng, pamaaw, chingkakawayan, liyano, de pelo, dima s'bato, pitu s'bato, de perlas, bumbolya, karakol, pinatapatan- traditional earrings that come from the Spanish period
- angang- jars
- dibang – flying fish
- payi – lobster
- arayu – dorado
- mataw – dorado fisherman
- tipuho – breadfruit
- uhango – pandan
- tamidok – fern
- chayi – tree
- soot – generic term referring to the Ivatan rain cape made from the finely stripped leaves of the vuyavuy palm.
- vakul – woman's soot, worn on the head.
- kanayi – man's soot, worn on the shoulders.
- falowa – Ivatan boat, now usually motorized, for 10–20 passengers.
- tataya – Ivatan dory with twin oars, for 2–4 passengers.
- timban – church
- vanuwa – port
- avayat – a broad directional term used to indicate the west, a western direction or the western side.
- valugan – a broad directional term sued to indicate the east, an eastern direction or the eastern side.
- palek – sugar cane wine
- malisto- fast
- mawadi- slow
- mavid- beautiful
- kuman- eat
- minom- drink
- bapor, tataya- boat
- taw- sea
- ranum- water
- salao sao- wind
- cayvan- friend
- mahacay- man
- mavakes- woman
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