kuwago
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Cebuano
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: ku‧wa‧go
Noun
[edit]kuwagò
- Alternative form of kulago
Tagalog
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- coago, couago, covago — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
- kuago — obsolete
- kwago — superseded, pre-2007
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Philippine *kuláʀu with elision of /l/. Compare Ilocano kullaaw, Pangasinan kulayot, Kapampangan kulayu, Bikol Central kuwaw, Cebuano kulago, Maranao kolago, and Western Bukidnon Manobo kulagu. Doublet of kulago and kulayo.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /kuˈaɡo/ [ˈkwaː.ɣo]
- Rhymes: -aɡo
- Syllabification: ku‧wa‧go
Noun
[edit]kuwago (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜏᜄᜓ)
- owl (especially the Philippine eagle owl)
- Synonym: paos
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “kuwago”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 494.
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero[1], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 386: “[Lechuça]) Covago (pp) ave conoçida q̃ anda de noche y aulla, tenian la por aguero y ſi ſepoſaba en los tejados la eſpantauan dando voçes, ſi haçian caſa nueua y ſepoſaua en ella antes deacaballa temian morirſe y aſi ponian vn eſpantajo [para que] noſe poſaſe, y noſe quitauan haſta acaballa”
- Zorc, David Paul (1981) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 2, page 106
Categories:
- Cebuano lemmas
- Cebuano nouns
- Tagalog terms inherited from Proto-Philippine
- Tagalog terms derived from Proto-Philippine
- Tagalog doublets
- Tagalog 3-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/aɡo
- Rhymes:Tagalog/aɡo/3 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- tl:Owls