A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan - iTeX translation reports

trul sa kutsi nga ílang gisunud, The police patrol inadvertently
lost track of the car they were following.
lihay, líhay v {1} [A2; c] dodge, evade a blow. Ilihay
ang ímung nawung, ayawg atras, Pull your face
away, but dont back off. {2} [A2; b(1)] evade a question,
wriggle out of s.t. Maáyu siyang mulihay ug
pangutána kay abugádu man, He is good in evading
questions because he is a lawyer. Dì ka na giyud
makalihay ánang mga pruyba, There is no way you can
wriggle out of it in the face of this evidence. {2a} escape
ones obligations. Buluhatun nga íyang gilihayan,
A job that he wriggled out of.
lihi v {1} [A; b] inaugurate s.t. with the proper ceremonies
or magical ingredients. Maglihi sila sa iskuylahan,
They will have the school blessed. Kámay mauy
ilihi sa mag-anak, When a woman is in labor, give her
brown sugar to insure that she will recover quickly.
{1a} bury s.t. with plants to insure a good harvest.
Lihian ug tablíya ang tabákù arun lugum ug kulur ang
dáhun, They plant chocolate together with tobacco
seeds to assure that it will have dark-colored leaves.
{1b} begin the new year with a certain action which
is believed will then endure for the rest of the year.
Gilihian níla ang bag-ung túig ug áway, They began
the new year with a quarrel. {1c} use s.t. for the
first time following the proper prohibitions or injunc-
tions. Lihian nátug simba ang bag-u nátung sapátus
arun mulungtad, Lets wear our new shoes to church
so they will last. {2} [A1; b6(1)] crave s.t. in the
first few months of pregnancy such that the appearance
of the thing desired appears as a birthmark in
the offspring. Kun maglihi kag asin, putì kunu ang
ímung bátà, If you crave salt in your early months
of pregnancy, your child will be white. {2a} [b4] for
a child to get the appearance of a certain thing his
mother craved while she was conceiving him. Náay
pula nga tap-ing sa íyang nawung kay gilihian siyag
kundíman, He has a purple splotch on his cheek because
his mother craved red cloth in her pregnancy.
{2b} [b4] get to have a certain characteristic by starting
out in a certain way. Bag-ung túig gánì, sayug
mata arun dì ka lìhan pagkahingatulug, Get up early
on New Years day so you wont get the characteristic
of being a sleepyhead for the whole year. n {1} injunctions
or prohibitions observed upon inaugurating s.t.;
anything used as a magical means to insure success of
s.t. inaugurated. Ang lihi sa pagtanum ug mangga,
asúkar, They use sugar to plant with mangoes to insure
sweet fruit. {2} birthmark which is thought invariably
to be due to a mothers cravings in her early stages of
pregnancy. pistang ig-l-() n holiday of obligation in
the Catholic Church.
lihíru {1} doing things with agility and rapidity. Li-