Info - Dusun Teminology

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The Dusun language have its own vocabulary when it comes to drinking. Some common terms you might encounter are listed below:

Aramai-tii
‘cheers’ – the word actually encompasses a whole Dusun philosophy of life. Aramai means ‘many people’, thus when there is aramai-tii there is a party with friends, generally merry making, it is a time to make new friends and renew old bonds.

Aanau
Plain taste, no more alcohol; if someone drinks not fast enough and thus the glass cannot do the rounds he might be asked whether the rice wine was 'aanau'...this will usually prompt the person to empty the glass immediately with profound excuses: "oh no, of course the rice wine is excellent!"

Asalit
Bitter-sweet taste (the best…)

Pait-nga-ngis
Bitter-Sour

Oonsom
Sour

Nosorob
Burnt (taste)

Biris
When drinking from jars: the next person to drink from a particular jar. Wait until someone makes you his or her ‘biris’ before you drink; do not simply go to a ‘vaccant’ jar and start…

Moginum
To drink; ponginum: drink! (imperative form)

Lundus
when drinking from jars: you are required to drink non-stop right to the mark indicated by the person who made you his or her ‘biris’

Ovion
drink up (lit.: empty; when drinking from glasses)

Logot-logoton
slowly

Pusas also ‘palus’ and ‘panganas’: 
tidbits served with the drinking, often salted fish and meats, soups, sometimes chips and peanuts…

Puun
The first drink from a bottle or a jar. “Puun(ai) oku po” – lit.: “I drink first”. Before you will be offered a drink your host drinks first, in order to show you that it is not anyhow poisoned. If you bring a bottle of wine to a party and open it you have to take the first sip in order to show that what you have brought is drinkable…

Tusuk also ‘sisiop’
A bamboo straw (when drinking from jars)

Tonduk
Indicator in a jar, with marks to measure the quantity to be drunk

Tunguhai
Request to have more water poured (when drinking from jars)

Suki
Bamboo cup (or simply ‘cup’ nowadays) when drinking from glasses

Tanggung
Bamboo container filled with rice wine for refilling suki and sinompurak

Sinompurak
Several suki at the end of a "fishing rod'

Sumandak
Unmarried girl

Tanak Wagu
Unmarried boy

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