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Cebuano
Alternative forms
Etymology
From ukay, inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hukay (“to dig up something buried; to disinter”). Compare Ilocano ukay, Tagalog hukay, and Malay ungkai.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ug‧kay
- IPA(key): /ˈʔuɡkaj/,
Noun
ugkay (Badlit spelling ᜂᜄ᜔ᜃᜌ᜔)
- act of digging up; excavating; turning up; unearthing; uncovering
- act of ransacking; rummaging; turning over
- act of stirring; mixing
- act of homewrecking
Derived terms
References
- John U. Wolff (1972) A dictionary of Cebuano Visayan (overall work in Cebuano and English), Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
- Blust, Robert, Trussel, Stephen (2010–) “*hukay”, in The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary