Meaning of púna

see púlung níya. see púlung, n2.

v. 1. replant spaces in a field where a seed or plant failed to grow. Íya nang gipunáan ang dapit nga wà tugki, She has already replanted the places where nothing sprouted; 2. repair a fishnet. Gipunáan pa ang púkut, They’re still mending the net.

v. dye and strengthen a fishline or net by rubbing it with the scrapings from the bark of a kind of mangrove (tabígì). (→) n. bark scrapings from mangrove for fishlines.