hanggan
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Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Tagalog hanggan (“limit, end”).
Pronunciation
Conjunction
hanggán (Basahan spelling ᜑᜅ᜔ᜄᜈ᜔)
Preposition
hanggán (Basahan spelling ᜑᜅ᜔ᜄᜈ᜔)
Tagalog
Etymology
From Western Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *haŋga (“until, as far as”). Compare hangga, Kapampangan angga, and Hanunoo hanggan. Possibly containing a fossilized suffix *-an, or back-formation, from hangganan, via hangga + -nan.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /haŋˈɡan/ [hɐŋˈɡan̪]
- Rhymes: -an
- Syllabification: hang‧gan
Noun
hanggán (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜅ᜔ᜄᜈ᜔)
Derived terms
- hangga't
- hangganan
- hanggang
- hanggang sa muli
- kahanggan
- kahangganan
- kawalang-hanggan
- magpasawalang-hanggan
- may-hanggan
- walang-hanggan
- walang-hangganan
Further reading
- “hanggan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*haŋga”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI