nusis
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- noses, nosis — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
- nuses
Etymology
Early borrowing of Spanish nueces, plural of nuez, from Vulgar Latin *nŏcem, alteration of Latin nucem. Doublet of nuwes.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈnusis/ [ˈn̪uː.sɪs]
- Rhymes: -usis
- Syllabification: nu‧sis
Noun
nusis (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜓᜐᜒᜐ᜔) (obsolete)
- nut
- Synonym: nuwes
- Hirangin mo iyang mga nusis sa kastanyas.
- Select the nuts there among the chestnuts.
References
- 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 678: “Noſes. pp) Nueçes.”