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Hanunoo
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(q)aʀuhu. Compare Tagalog aguho.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʔaˈɡuʔu/
- Rhymes: -uʔu
- Syllabification: a‧go‧o
Noun
agoo (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜤᜳᜢ) (botany)
- she-oak (Casuarina equisetifolia)
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 22
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qaRuhu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI