tunaisa

Tagalog

Etymology

From *tuna- +‎ isa. Possibly contraction of taon na isa, according to Potet (2016).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tunaʔiˈsa/ [tʊ.nɐ.ʔɪˈsa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: tu‧na‧i‧sa

Adverb

tunaisá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜈᜁᜐ)

1. (obsolete) next year

   Synonyms: taong darating, susunod na taon, taong haharapin

Usage notes

• For the following years, Fr. San José (1610) provided the following examples:
  • tunaikalawa ― next two years
  • tunaikatlo ― next three years
  • tunaikapuwong taon ― next ten years
  • tunaikalawangpuwong taon ― next twenty years

Further reading

• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• de San José, Francisco (1610) chapter 19, in Arte y reglas de la lengua Tagala, Thomas Pinpin, page 286
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Numbers and Units in Old Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 319