punso

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• pongso — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• pungso — obsolete

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puŋsu. Compare Kapampangan pungsu and Malay pongsu.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /punˈso/ [pʊn̪ˈso], /punˈsoʔ/ [pʊn̪ˈsoʔ]
• Rhymes: -o, -oʔ
• Syllabification: pun‧so

Noun

punsó or punsô (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜈ᜔ᜐᜓ)

1. anthill; mound; hillock

Derived terms

• kabuteng-punso
• magpunso
• mamungso
• matanda sa punso
• nuno sa punso
• pumunso

See also

• puntod
• pusyo

Further reading

• “punso”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte.‎ (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen. Juan de Silva, Pila, Laguna: La noble Villa de Pila, por Tomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag., page 430: “Monton) Pongſo (pc) que haçen las hormigas de tierra que ſacan de aba o arriba”
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*puŋsu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Anagrams

• puson