alintawo

Hanunoo

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *CaCaw (“pupil of the eye”). Compare Tagalog balintataw and Bikol Central alintataw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔalinˈtawu/ [ʔa.lɪnˈta.wo]
• Rhymes: -awu
• Syllabification: a‧lin‧ta‧wo

Noun

alintawo (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜮᜲᜨ᜴ᜦᜯᜳ) (anatomy)

1. pupil (the hole in the middle of the iris of the eye)

Related terms

• tawo

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 25
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*CaCaw”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI