sungsong

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sung‧song

Verb

sungsong

1. to seal or stop up; to cork

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• songsong — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *suŋsuŋ (“go against wind or current”). Compare Pangasinan songsong (“contradict; go against the tide”), Kapampangan tapayan sungsung (“Chinese jar”), Agutaynen tongtong (“go against the current”), Cebuano salungsung (“go directly against the current”). Tausug Sungsung (“China”), Malay songsong (“opposite direction”), and Javanese ꦤꦸꦁꦱꦸꦁ (nungsung, “go upstream, toward the source”). See also Sungsong. According to Blust and Trussel (2010), the attribution to China is presumably connected with sailing problems in reaching mainland China from the Philippines.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /suŋˈsoŋ/
• Rhymes: -oŋ
• Syllabification: sung‧song
• Homophone: Sungsong

Noun

sungsóng (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜅ᜔ᜐᜓᜅ᜔)

1. act of going against the current or wind (such as when sailing)

   Synonyms: salunga, pagsalunga, salangsang, sugod

2. (archaic) north of the monsoon

Usage notes

• According to Panganiban (1972), there is an old tradition that insinuates that Lusong (or Luzon) would be "south of the monsoon" from the Chinese perspective with Sungsong as "north of the monsoon".

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Adjective

sungsóng (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜅ᜔ᜐᜓᜅ᜔)

1. (archaic) Chinese; of Chinese origin

   Synonyms: Tsino, Intsik

Derived terms

See also

• Sungsong

References

Further reading

• “sungsong”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• 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 187: “Contrauiento ) Songſong (pc) nauegar con fuerça”