dantay
Rukai
Etymology
Noun
dantay
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- dangtay — obsolete
Etymology
From partial assimilation of /ŋ/ and /t/ of earlier dangtay, methathesis from Proto-Southern Philippine *taŋday (“put feet over”). Compare Kapampangan dante and Cebuano tanday.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /danˈtaj/ [d̪ɐn̪ˈt̪aɪ̯]
- Rhymes: -aj
- Syllabification: dan‧tay
Noun
dantáy (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜈ᜔ᜆᜌ᜔)
- placing of one's leg or thigh (on someone or something)
- (by extension) leaning against something
- (physics, neologism) impulse
Derived terms
- dantayan
- dantayanin
- dantayin
- dumantay
- madantayan
- magdantayan
- padantayan
- pagdantay
See also
Further reading
- “dantay”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
- “dantay”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
- Serrano Laktaw, Pedro (1914), Diccionario tagálog-hispano (overall work in Tagalog and Spanish), Intramuros, Manila: Ateneo de Manila., page 208
- 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.
- Zorc, David Paul (1982), Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 3, page 114
Yogad
Noun
dantay