dalampasigan
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- dalang pasigan — obsolete
Etymology
From dalampasig + -an.
Other alternate etymologies include:
- From *dalan (fossilized form of daan) + pasigan, according to Potet (2016).
- From Malay dalam (“inside”) + pasigan, according to Zorc (1982).
- From dalawa + -m- + pasigan, according to Panganiban (1973).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /dalampaˈsiɡan/ [d̪ɐ.lɐm.pɐˈsiː.ɣɐn̪]
- Rhymes: -iɡan
- Syllabification: da‧lam‧pa‧si‧gan
Noun
dalampasigan (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜎᜋ᜔ᜉᜐᜒᜄᜈ᜔)
Further reading
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 135
- Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 340
- Zorc, David Paul (1982) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 3, page 111
- Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera (1887) El sanscrito en la lengua tagalog[1] (in Spanish), Paris: Imprimerie de la Faculté de Médecine, A. Davy, page 28