ugkay

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Cebuano

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From ukay, inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hukay (to dig up something buried; to disinter). Compare Ilocano ukay, Tagalog hukay, and Malay ungkai.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ug‧kay
  • IPA(key): /ˈʔuɡkaj/ [ˈʔuɡ.kɐɪ̯]

Noun

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ugkay (Badlit spelling ᜂᜄ᜔ᜃᜌ᜔)

  1. act of digging up; excavating; turning up; unearthing; uncovering
  2. act of ransacking; rummaging; turning over
  3. act of stirring; mixing
  4. act of homewrecking

Derived terms

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References

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  • John U. Wolff (1972) A dictionary of Cebuano Visayan[1] (overall work in Cebuano and English), Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*hukay”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI