pipay

Tagalog

Etymology

From monophthongization of the first syllable of paypay.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpipaj/ [ˈpiː.paɪ̯]
• Rhymes: -ipaj
• Syllabification: pi‧pay

Noun

pipay (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜉᜌ᜔) (obsolete)

1. Alternative form of paypay

Further reading

• Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 1074.
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier