lunggati

Brooke's Point Palawano

Noun

lunggati

1. worm

Synonyms

• uled

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• langati, longati — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• langgati

Etymology

From *lung (“grief”) (cf. lungkot, lungayi, and lumbay) + Malay hati (“emotions”, literally “liver”), cf. dalamhati, pighati, ulohati, luwalhati, and salaghati).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /luŋɡaˈtiʔ/ [lʊŋ.ɡɐˈtiʔ]
• Rhymes: -iʔ
• Syllabification: lung‧ga‧ti

Noun

lunggatî (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜅ᜔ᜄᜆᜒ)

1. earnest desire; fervent wish or ambition

   Synonyms: mithi, punyagi

Derived terms

• lunggatiin
• maglunggati
• mapaglunggati

 

Further reading

• “lunggati”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 87