nawatwat, poverty-stricken; term applied to the lowest class of Ifugao society.
nemnem, mind, feeling, thought, emotion, worry, intention. The term is of very broad meaning and applies to the mind or any act thereof.
nikkop (lit., “taken to one’s self”), adopted child, or a servant that is treated as one of the family.
nunbadi, a pair; consisting of two subunits or parts; two together.
nundopa, the “jumping down from.”
nungolat (lit., “he who was strong”), the conceiver, or originator, of a plot; he who assembles others to himself, and leads them in committing an injury or offense.
nunlidludagan, place where it was laid, or had fallen.
nunókop, a payment of two units of a series by means of a single article. The Ifugao prefers to divide all sales into ten subpayments. If the sale be comparatively small, two subpayments may be paid by one article, as by a death blanket.
oban, a blanket, about eight feet long and two feet wide, with which a baby is carried on the back of an elder. It is of great religious and poetic significance.
ohok, sticks or trellis for climbing vines.