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Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tayun (“swing”). Compare Iban tayun-tayun (“swinging”). Doublet of tayong. See also Cebuano hayon and Malay ayun.
Pronunciation
Noun
tayon (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜌᜓᜈ᜔)
- pendulous-like swinging movement of something long and slender
- (figurative) Alternative form of tayong
- (obsolete) rocking a child in the cradle
- Synonyms: tabyong, (obsolete) gubing
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See also
Further reading
- “tayon”, 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
- 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 410: “Meçer) Tayon (pp) al niño en la cuna”
- page 564: “Suſpender) Tayong (pp) la obra.”
- page 614: “Zeſar) Tayon (pp) de la obra q̃ haçe”
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*tayun”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI