tuktok

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *tuktuk.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuktok/ [ˈtuk.tok]
• Hyphenation: tuk‧tok

túktók (Basahan spelling ᜆᜓᜃ᜔ᜆᜓᜃ᜔)

1. knock
2. mince, chop

   Synonym: tadtad

From Proto-Austronesian *tuktuk.

• Hyphenation: tuk‧tok
• IPA^(key): /ˈtuktok/ [ˈt̪uk.t̪ok]

tuktok

1. to knock on something
2. to strike with the beak

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tukˈtok/ [t̪ʊkˈt̪ok̚]
• Rhymes: -ok
• Syllabification: tuk‧tok

From Proto-Austronesian *tuktuk (“top, summit, crown”). Compare Hiligaynon toktok, Sambali toktok, and Balinese tuktuk. Doublet of tuntong.

tuktók (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜃ᜔ᜆᜓᜃ᜔)

1. peak; summit; topmost

   Synonyms: taluktok, tugatog, rurok, kaitaasan, apoheo, altura

2. top or crown of the head
3. (euphemistic) brain

   Synonyms: utak, kukote

• bumbunan

From Proto-Austronesian *tuktuk (“to knock, pound, beat; crush”). Cognate with Malay tutok (“crushing rattans into soft fibrous pulp”) and Hawaiian kuku (“to beat, as tapa”).

tuktók (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜃ᜔ᜆᜓᜃ᜔)

1. knock; knocking (on a door, surface, etc.)

   Synonyms: katok, pagkatok, kalatok, kalatog, kalatag

2. repeated peck with a beak or bill (of a bird)

   Synonyms: tuka, pagtuka

3. marks made by repeated pecking
4. game whereby the heads of two eggs are knocked together and the broken egg holder loses

• “tuktok”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*tuktuk₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*tuktuk₃”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• kutkot

From Proto-Austronesian *tuktuk.

tuktok

1. beak