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Tagalog
Etymology
Reduplication of tao. The word does not exist in older dictionaries and may have been a recent coinage patterned from other Philippine languages, which were derived from Proto-Philippine *tau-tau (“pupil (eye)”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau tau, from Proto-Austronesian *Cau Cau (“pupil of the eye”), reduplication of *Cau (“person”). Compare Tagalog balintataw, Ilocano tao-tao, Bikol Central alintataw / tatawo, Cebuano tawo-tawo, and Tausug tau-tau mata.
Pronunciation
Noun
tao-tao (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜂᜆᜂ)
- (anatomy) pupil (of the eye)
- Synonyms: balintataw, inla, alikmata
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