lawulta
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- lauolta, lavolta – obsolete, Abecedario orthography
Etymology
Borrowed from (c. 16th-18th century) Early Modern Spanish la güerta (“the orchard”), an archaic variant of la huerta. Compare lakwatsa, lamesa, lamesita, and lamyerda. Doublet of lagwerta.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: la‧wul‧ta
- IPA(key): /lawulˈta/, [lɐ.wʊlˈta]
Noun
lawultá (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜏᜓᜎ᜔ᜆ)
- (obsolete) garden for vegetables or trees; pot garden
- Synonyms: halamanan, hardin, (obsolete) halaman, (obsolete) panaanan
- Diligin ninyo ang lawulta.
- Water the garden.
Derived terms
- lawultahin
- maglawulta
Further reading
- Fr. Pedro de San Buena Ventura (1613), Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 337: “Guerta) Lavolta ([pc]) C. de hortaliça o arboles”
- Fr. Pedro de San Buena Ventura (1613), Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 358: “Huerta) Lavolta ([pc]) C. que eſta çercada o otro lugar ſembrado de verdura”
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 320