adlit

Hanunoo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔadlit/ [ˈʔɐd.lɪt]
• Rhymes: -adlit
• Syllabification: ad‧lit

Noun

adlit (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜧ᜴ᜮᜲᜦ᜴)

1. lancet (especially one fashioned from a sharp splinter of a bagakay bamboo)
2. a person who supervises a blood pact ceremony drawing blood from both parties with a bamboo lancet
3. the act of drawing blood in this manner

Usage notes

• Since the performance of the blood pact is no longer strictly observed in most Hanunoo districts, usages involving blood pacts are rapidly being forgotten.

Derived terms

• ipaadlit

 

Further reading

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 19