buwig

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• bouig, buuig — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buliʀ (“(entire) stalk of bananas; ear of grain”) with elision of /l/. Compare Ilocano bulig, Cebuano bulig, Maranao olig, Malay bulir, and Javanese ꦮꦸꦭꦶ (wuli).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /buˈiɡ/ [ˈbwɪɡ̚]
  • Rhymes: -iɡ
• (now dialectal, Southern Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbuiɡ/ [ˈbuː.ɪɡ̚]
  • Rhymes: -uiɡ
• Syllabification: bu‧wig

Noun

buwíg (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜏᜒᜄ᜔)

1. bunch or cluster of fruits

Further reading

• “buwig”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*buliR”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI