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Masbatenyo
Noun
yugyog
- act or manner of shaking
Derived terms
Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *yugyúg (“to shake a tree and let down fruit”). Compare Ilocano yegyeg / yugyog, Masbatenyo yugyog, Bikol Central yugyog, and Cebuano yugyog.
Pronunciation
Noun
yugyóg (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜓᜄ᜔ᜌᜓᜄ᜔)
- act or manner of shaking something up and down (of tree branches, planks, etc.)
- Synonyms: uga, liglig, ig-ig, pagyugyog
- state or condition of being shaken up and down
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “yugyog”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*yugyúg”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI