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Cebuano
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qali-peqip.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʔaˈlipʔip/
- Hyphenation: a‧lip‧ip
Noun
alip-ip (Badlit spelling ᜀᜎᜒᜉ᜔ᜁᜉ᜔)
- (anatomy) a person's back, from the shoulders as far as the waist
- Synonyms: bukobuko, luyo, likod
- (anatomy) a person's waist; the part directly beneath the lower ribs
- Synonym: hawak
Hanunoo
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qali-pəqip.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʔalipˈʔip/
- Rhymes: -ip
- Syllabification: a‧lip-ip
Noun
alip-íp (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜮᜲᜩ᜴ᜡᜩ᜴) (anatomy)
- scapula; shoulder blade
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 25
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qali-peqip”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI