sampu

• sampo

Inherited from Proto-South Sulawesi *sampu (“cousin”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ampu, from Proto-Austronesian *apu (“grandparent/grandchild”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsampu/, [ˈsampʰu]
• Hyphenation: sam‧pu

sampu (Lontara spelling ᨔᨄᨘ)

1. cousin

• A. A. Cense (2024) Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek‎^[1], Brill, →DOI

• sampo — colloquial
• sampouo, sangpouo — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• sampuo, sampuwo, sampwo, sangpuo, sangpuwo — obsolete

From sampuo, from sampuwo, from older sampulo, ultimately from Proto-Austronesian *sa-ŋa-puluq (“ten”). Compare Ilocano sangapulo, Bikol Central sampulo, Maranao sapolo', Tausug hangpu', Gorontalo mopulu, Malay sepuluh, Bima sampuru, and Hawaiian anahulu (“period of ten days”). By surface analysis, sam- +‎ pu, literally “one ten”.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /samˈpuʔ/ [sɐmˈpuʔ]

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• Rhymes: -uʔ
• Syllabification: sam‧pu

sampû (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜋ᜔ᜉᜓ)

1. ten

   Synonym: diyes

• To describe the quantity of something, the number is placed before the noun and affixed with -ng enclitic suffix when the word ends with a vowel, and a separate preposition, na, for a consonant.

  Isang saging, dalawang pinya

  One banana, two pineapples

  Apat na mansanas, anim na mangga

  Four apples, six mangos

• “sampu”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 1156.
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[2] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier

• sumpa