agoo

See also: Agoo

Hanunoo

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(q)aʀuhu. Compare Tagalog aguho.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔaˈɡuʔu/ [ʔaˈɡu.ʔo]
  • Rhymes: -uʔu
  • Syllabification: a‧go‧o

Noun

agoo (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜤᜳᜢ) (botany)

  1. she-oak (Casuarina equisetifolia)

Further reading

  • Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 22
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qaRuhu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI