sungsong
See also: Sungsong
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sung‧song
Verb
sungsong
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- songsong — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
- sunsong — superseded, pre-1977
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *suŋsuŋ (“go against wind or current”).[1] Compare Pangasinan songsong (“contradict; go against the tide”), Kapampangan salungsung (“involvement with danger”), tapayan sungsung (“Chinese jar”), Agutaynen tongtong (“go against the current”), Cebuano salungsung (“go directly against the current”). Tausug Sungsung (“China”), Malay songsong (“opposite direction”), and Javanese ꦤꦸꦁꦱꦸꦁ (nungsung, “go upstream, toward the source”). See also Sungsong. According to Blust and Trussel (2010), the attribution to China is presumably connected with sailing problems in reaching mainland China from the Philippines.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /suŋˈsoŋ/ [sʊn̪ˈsoŋ]
- Rhymes: -oŋ
- Syllabification: sung‧song
- Homophone: Sungsong
Noun
sungsóng (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜅ᜔ᜐᜓᜅ᜔)
- act of going against the current or wind (such as when sailing)
- Synonyms: salunga, pagsalunga, salangsang, sugod
- (archaic) north of the monsoon
Usage notes
- According to Panganiban (1973),[2] there is an old tradition that insinuates that Lusong (or Luzon) would be "south of the monsoon" from the Chinese perspective with Sungsong as "north of the monsoon".
Derived terms
- ipagsungsong
- ipanungsong
- isungsong
- magsungsong
- manungsong
- pagsungsong
- sumungsong
- sungsungin
Related terms
- salangsang
- salungsong
See also
Adjective
sungsóng (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜅ᜔ᜐᜓᜅ᜔)
Derived terms
- alang-ilang sonson
- kabuteng-sungsong
- kamariyang-sungsong
- malagkit sungsong
- sampagitang-sungsong
- sinamomong-sungsong
- suhang-sungsong
See also
References
Further reading
- “sungsong”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- 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 187: “Contrauiento ) Songſong (pc) nauegar con fuerça”