usong
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- osong — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qusuŋ (“carry between two persons”). Compare Cebuano usong, Tausug usung, Javanese ꦲꦸꦱꦸꦁ (usung) and Malay usung.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈʔusoŋ/ [ˈʔuː.soŋ]
- Rhymes: -usoŋ
- Syllabification: u‧song
Noun
usong (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜐᜓᜅ᜔)
- act of helping another or each other in carrying a load cooperatively
- Synonyms: pag-usong, pag-uusong
- act of carrying of a load by two or more persons at the same time
- Synonyms: pag-usong, pag-uusong
Derived terms
- ikausong
- iusong
- kausungin
- mag-usong
- pag-usong
- pag-usungan
- pag-uusong
- umusong
- umusong-usong
- usungan
- usungin
Further reading
- “usong”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qusuŋ”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI