sungsong

See also: Sungsong

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: sung‧song

Verb

sungsong

  1. to seal or stop up; to cork

Tagalog

Alternative forms

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

Noun

sungsóng (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜅ᜔ᜐᜓᜅ᜔)

  1. act of going against the current or wind (such as when sailing)
    Synonyms: salunga, pagsalunga, salangsang, sugod
  2. (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

See also

Adjective

sungsóng (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜅ᜔ᜐᜓᜅ᜔)

  1. (archaic) Chinese; of Chinese origin
    Synonyms: Tsino, Intsik

Derived terms

See also

References

  1. ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*suŋsuŋ₁”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
  2. ^ Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 924

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