suklay
Tagalog
Etymology
Compare Kapampangan sukle, Central Bikol sukray, Aklanon sudlay, Cebuano sudlay, Waray-Waray sudlay, and Tausug sudlay. See also Suku sunday, Maranao salday, Western Bukidnon Manobo seglay, and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sunday (“comb”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /sukˈlaj/ [sʊkˈlaɪ̯]
- Rhymes: -aj
- Syllabification: suk‧lay
Noun
sukláy (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜃ᜔ᜎᜌ᜔)
Derived terms
- bulang gasuklay
- gasuklay
- kahiramang-suklay
- magsuklay
- pagsusuklay
- panuklay
- pasuklayan
- suklayan
- suklayin
See also
Further reading
- “suklay”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*sunday”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI