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Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Austronesian *laʀiw (“run, run away, flee, escape”), with semantic development to mean “that which runs along with oneself”. Compare Ivatan yayu, Kapampangan laggiu / pulai, Hiligaynon lagiw, Cebuano lagiw, Maranao lagoy, Maguindanao lagoy, Tboli lóy, and Malay lari.
Pronunciation
Noun
lagyô (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜄ᜔ᜌᜓ)
- soul; spirit
- Synonyms: diwa, kaluluwa, espiritu
- name; appellation
- Synonyms: ngalan, pangalan, taguri, tawag
- basic identifying element
Derived terms
Further reading
- “lagyo” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
- “lagyo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 531.
- 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
- Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte. (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
- 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 308: “Eſpiritu) Lagio (pc) lo interior del hõbre, y ſe llama calagio los de vn hõbre .|. el de meſmo interior y eſpiritu conmigo”
- page 445: “Nombre) Lagio (pc) q̃ vno toma por canta de otro”
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*laRiw”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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