atlo

Possibly borrowed from Kapampangan atlu, metathesis from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu, from Proto-Austronesian *təlu. Compare inherited itlo. Doublet of tatlo and itlo.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔatˈlo/ [ʔɐt̪ˈl̪o]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: at‧lo

atló (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜆ᜔ᜎᜓ) (obsolete)

1. three

   Synonyms: tatlo, tres, (obsolete) itlo, (obsolete) mampat

• “atlo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[2], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 587: “Tres) [Itlo] (pc) T. contando como viejo. I. atlo, iſa, alva, atlo, ipat, vno, dos, 3, 4”
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*telu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• laot, taol, talo, olat, lato

From Proto-Philippine [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu, from Proto-Austronesian *təlu.

atlo

1. three