ngilo

Cebuano

FWOTD – 11 April 2017

Etymology

Sound suggested of shrillness. From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ŋilu.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Cebuano) IPA^(key): /ŋiˈl̪o/
• Rhymes: -o
• Hyphenation: ngi‧lo

Noun

ngilo

1. the irritating feeling produced when hearing sounds like the screeching of tires, the grinding of teeth, and scraping on a chalkboard
   • 2007, Rey Jude P. Agana, The Role of Rumors in Informal Learning (Ph.D. dissertation), p. 30, Fig. 3.2:

     Medyo ngilo
     Medium rasping

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Verb

ngilo

1. to feel irritated by such sounds

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• ng̃ilo — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *ŋilu. Compare Malay ngilu.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ŋiˈlo/ [ŋɪˈlo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: ngi‧lo

Noun

ngiló (Baybayin spelling ᜅᜒᜎᜓ) (medicine)

1. tingling nerve pain felt on the edge of one's teeth

   Synonyms: pangingilo, dentera, yangasngas

Derived terms

• ikangilo
• kangiluhan
• makangilo
• makapangilo
• mangilo
• ngiluhin
• pangingilo

Adjective

ngiló (Baybayin spelling ᜅᜒᜎᜓ)

1. feeling the tingling nerve pain on the edge of one's teeth (of a person)

   Synonym: nangingilo

Further reading

• “ngilo”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “ngilo”, 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.
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte.‎^[2] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen. Juan de Silva, Pila, Laguna: La noble Villa de Pila, por Tomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag., page 223: “Dentera) Ng̃ilo (pc) de comer agrio”
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*ŋilu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Anagrams

• Liong, lingo, ilong