alitaptap

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qali-pətpət, from *pət-pət with metathesis.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔalitapˈtap/ [ʔɐ.lɪ.t̪ɐpˈt̪ap̚]
  • Rhymes: -ap
  • Syllabification: a‧li‧tap‧tap

Noun

alitaptáp (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜒᜆᜉ᜔ᜆᜉ᜔)

  1. firefly

References

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

Further reading

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