lawulta

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• lauolta — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

Etymology

Borrowed from Early Modern Spanish la güerta (“the orchard”), an obsolete variant of la huerta, with a stress shift due to having a closed penultimate syllable. Compare lakwatsa, lamesa, lamesita, lamyerda, and lauya. Doublet of lagwerta.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /lawulˈta/ [lɐ.wʊlˈt̪a]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: la‧wul‧ta

Noun

lawultá (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜏᜓᜎ᜔ᜆ) (obsolete)

1. garden for vegetables or trees; pot garden

   Synonyms: halamanan, hardin, (obsolete) panaanan

   Diligin ninyo ang lawulta.

   Water the garden.

Derived terms

• lawultahin
• maglawulta

 

Further reading

• 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 337: “Guerta) Lavolta [(pc)] C. de hortaliça o arboles”
  • page 358: “Huerta) Lavolta [(pc)] C. que eſta çercada o otro lugar ſembrado de verdura”
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 320