alip-ip

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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)

  1. (anatomy) a person's back, from the shoulders as far as the waist
    Synonyms: bukobuko, luyo, likod
  2. (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)

  1. 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