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Tagalog
Etymology
Possibly borrowed from Kapampangan atlu, metathesis from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu, from Proto-Austronesian *təlu. Compare inherited itlo. Doublet of tatlo and itlo.
Pronunciation
Numeral
atló (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜆ᜔ᜎᜓ) (obsolete)
- three
- Synonyms: tatlo, tres, (obsolete) itlo, (obsolete) mampat
Further reading
- “atlo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 587: “Tres) [Itlo] (pc) T. contando como viejo. | atlo, iſa, alva, atlo, ipat, vno, dos, 3, 4”
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*telu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
Anagrams
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Etymology
From Proto-Philippine , from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu, from Proto-Austronesian *təlu.
Numeral
atlo
- three