tunaisa

Tagalog

Etymology

From *tuna- +‎ isa. Possibly a contraction of taon +‎ na +‎ isa, according to Potet (2016).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tunaʔiˈsa/ [t̪ʊ.n̪ɐ.ʔɪˈsa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: tu‧na‧i‧sa

Adverb

tunaisá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜈᜁᜐ) (obsolete)

1. next year

   Synonyms: taong darating, susunod na taon, taong haharapin

Usage notes

• For the following years, Fr. San José (1610) provided the following examples:
  • tunaikalawa ― next two years
  • tunaikatlo ― next three years
  • tunaikapuwong taon ― next ten years
  • tunaikalawangpuwong taon ― next twenty years

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. (overall work in Spanish and Classical Tagalog), Manila: Ramírez y Giraudier., page 347
• de San José, Francisco (1610), chapter 19, in Arte y reglas de la lengua Tagala, Thomas Pinpin, page 286
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016), Numbers and Units in Old Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 319