lunggati

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Noun

lunggati

  1. worm

Synonyms

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology

From *lung (“grief”) (cf. lungkot, lungayi, and lumbay) + Malay hati (“emotions”, literally “liver”), cf. dalamhati, pighati, ulohati, luwalhati, and salaghati).

Pronunciation

Noun

lunggatî (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜅ᜔ᜄᜆᜒ)

  1. earnest desire; fervent wish or ambition
    Synonyms: mithi, punyagi

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “lunggati”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 87

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