sukuyuli
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- socoyoli, sosocoyoli, susocoyoli — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
- susukuyuli
Etymology
Possibly borrowed from Mexican Spanish socoyoli, from Classical Nahuatl xocoyolli (“sorrel”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /sukuˈjuli/ [sʊ.xʊˈjuː.lɪ]
- Rhymes: -uli
- Syllabification: su‧ku‧yu‧li
Noun
sukuyuli (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜃᜓᜌᜓᜎᜒ) (obsolete)
- creeping woodsorrel (Oxalis corniculata)
- Synonym: taingang-daga
- common wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella)
- Synonym: taingang-daga
Further reading
- 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.