lawulta

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Early Modern Spanish la güerta (“the orchard”), an obsolete variant of la huerta, with a stress shift due to having a closed penultimate syllable. Compare lakwatsa, lamesa, lamesita, lamyerda, and lauya. Doublet of lagwerta.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /lawulˈta/ [lɐ.wʊlˈt̪a]
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Syllabification: la‧wul‧ta

Noun

lawultá (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜏᜓᜎ᜔ᜆ) (obsolete)

  1. garden for vegetables or trees; pot garden
    Synonyms: halamanan, hardin, (obsolete) panaanan
    Diligin ninyo ang lawulta.
    Water the garden.

Derived terms

  • lawultahin
  • maglawulta

Further reading

  • San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎[1], La Noble Villa de Pila
    • page 337: “Guerta) Lavolta [(pc)] C. de hortaliça o arboles”
    • page 358: “Huerta) Lavolta [(pc)] C. que eſta çercada o otro lugar ſembrado de verdura”
  • Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 320
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