sisiwa

• sisiua — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish chichigua (“wet nurse”) during the Early Modern Spanish period, from Classical Nahuatl chichihua (“wet nurse”), from chichi (“suckle”). Compare Chamorro chichigua.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /siˈsiwa/ [sɪˈsiː.wɐ]
• Rhymes: -iwa
• Syllabification: si‧si‧wa

sisiwa (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜐᜒᜏ)

1. wet nurse

   Synonyms: mamay, yaya

• “sisiwa”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “sisiwa”, 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 1191
• 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.
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  • page 50: “Ama) Siſiva (pp) que cria niño aſus pechos.”
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