ukay

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Bikol Central

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔuˈkaj/
  • Hyphenation: u‧kay

Noun

ukáy (Basahan spelling ᜂᜃᜌ᜔)

  1. (Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon) monkey
    Synonyms: kabalang, amo

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: u‧kay
  • IPA(key): /ˈʔukaj/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hukay (“to dig up something buried; to disinter”). Compare Ilocano ukay, Tagalog hukay, and Malay ungkai.

Alternative forms

Noun

ukay (Badlit spelling ᜂᜃᜌ᜔)

  1. act of stirring; mixing (moving around the particles of a liquid, etc.)
  2. something to stir with
  3. act of plowing lightly (especially a second time, across existing furrows)
  4. act of rummaging; uncovering; turning over; ransacking (to find something by turning things upside down)
  5. act of causing a stir; causing a commotion; causing a disturbance
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English okay.

Interjection

úkay

  1. Alternative form of uki

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; et al. (2023) “*hukay”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Ilocano

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hukay (“dig up something buried, disinter”). Compare Tagalog hukay, Cebuano ugkay, and Malay ungkai.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔuˈkaj/
  • Hyphenation: u‧kay

Noun

ukáy

  1. loosening the earth of seedbeds

Derived terms

References

  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*hukay”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Possibly an ellipsis of ukay-ukay or from Cebuano ukay / ugkay. Compare Tagalog hukay or halukay.

Pronunciation

Noun

ukay (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜃᜌ᜔)

  1. act of digging, turning over and back (either in search of something or to mix well)
    Synonym: halukay
  2. Synonym of ukay-ukay
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

ukáy (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜃᜌ᜔)

  1. creeping-rolling motion of a snake
    Synonyms: pag-ukay, gapang
Alternative forms
Derived terms

Further reading

  • “ukay”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

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