alintawo

Hanunoo

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *CaCaw (“pupil of the eye”). Compare Tagalog balintataw and Bikol Central alintataw.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔalinˈtawu/ [ʔa.lɪnˈta.wo]
  • Rhymes: -awu
  • Syllabification: a‧lin‧ta‧wo

Noun

alintawo (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜮᜲᜨ᜴ᜦᜯᜳ) (anatomy)

  1. pupil (the hole in the middle of the iris of the eye)

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 25
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*CaCaw”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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