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Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qali-pətpət, from *pət-pət with metathesis.
Pronunciation
Noun
alitaptáp (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜒᜆᜉ᜔ᜆᜉ᜔)
- firefly
References
- ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qali-petpet”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
Further reading
- “alitaptap”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018