agiw

Hanunoo

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *agiw. Compare Tagalog agiw (“soot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔaɡiw/ [ˈʔa.ɡɪw]
• Rhymes: -aɡiw
• Syllabification: a‧giw

Noun

agiw (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜤᜲᜯ᜴)

1. soot that collects on the rafters of a house

Derived terms

• agiwan

Further reading

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953), Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 21

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• agio, agyo — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔaɡiw/ [ˈʔaː.ɣɪʊ̯]
• Rhymes: -aɡiw
• Syllabification: a‧giw

Etymology 1

From Proto-Philippine *agiw.

Noun

agiw (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜄᜒᜏ᜔)

1. dirty, sooty cobweb
2. soot

   Synonym: uling

Derived terms

• agiwin

Etymology 2

Numeral

agiw (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜄᜒᜏ᜔) (obsolete)

1. four

   Synonym: apat

Usage notes

• Fr. Noceda & Fr. Sanlucar (1860) mentioned a series of the first ten numerals, which they said to be used in the ancient times. Numbers in the series from 1-10 were: isain, duwain, mampat, agiw, tundong, kala, manapit, saga, bulaid, and turo. However, according to Blake (1907), the series was hardly possible to be more ancient because the series does not follow the common property of the Malayo-Polynesian family. Furthermore, Brandsetter (1902), thought that Fr. Noceda & Fr. Sanlucar misunderstood, and they represented a series of secret numbers or the numerals of another language.

Further reading

• “agiw”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860), Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves, y coordinado por…, ultimamente aumentado y corregido por varios religiosos de la Orden de Agustinos calzados.‎^[1] (overall work in Spanish and Classical Tagalog), Manila: Ramírez y Giraudier.
• Blake, Frank R. (1907), “Contributions to Comparative Philippine Grammar, II”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society‎^[2], volume 28, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 199–253
• Brandstetter, Renward (1902), Tagalen und Madagassen: eine sprachvergleichende Darstellung als Orientierung für Ethnographen und Sprachforscher‎^[3], Geschw. Doleschal, Nachfolger J. Eisenring, page 10
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016), Numbers and Units in Old Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 22

Anagrams

• giwa, wagi, gawi