tungau

Central Dusun

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

tungau

1. cat

   Orohian oku do tungau.

   I like cats.

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay tungau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuŋaw (“tiny red itch mite”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtuŋau̯/ [ˈt̪u.ŋau̯]
• Rhymes: -uŋau̯
• Syllabification: tu‧ngau

Noun

tungau (plural tungau-tungau)

1. mite (any of many minute arachnids of the subclass Acarina)

Hyponyms

• tungau anjing (“eyelash mite, face mite, skin mite, Demodex canis”)
• tungau merah (“red mite, Dermanyssus gallinae”)

References

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

Further reading

• “tungau” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuŋaw (“tiny red itch mite”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuŋau̯/
• Rhymes: -uŋau̯

Noun

tungau (Jawi spelling توڠاو, plural tungau-tungau, informal 1st possessive tungauku, 2nd possessive tungaumu, 3rd possessive tungaunya)

1. mite

   Synonym: hama

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• bertungau [stative / habitual] (beR-)

Descendants

• Indonesian: tungau

Further reading

• “tungau” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.