pulumasi
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- polomase, polomaſe – obsolete, Abecedario orthography
- polomasi, polomaſi – obsolete, Abecedario orthography
- pulumase
Etymology
Borrowed from (c. 16th-18th century) Early Modern Spanish plumaje. In Early Modern Spanish, Spanish ⟨j⟩ was pronounced /ʃ/; /ʃ/ became /s/ as common with other early borrowings (compare sabon, singkamas, sugarol, sugal, and tasa). Doublet of plumahe.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pu‧lu‧ma‧si
- IPA(key): /puluˈmasi/, [pʊ.lʊˈma.sɪ]
Noun
pulumasi (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜎᜓᜋᜐᜒ)
- (obsolete) plumage (decorative feathers for a hat or headdress)
- Synonym: plumahe
Derived terms
- magpulumasi
- pulumasihin
Related terms
- puluma
References
- 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 485: “Plumaje) [Polomaſi] (pp) C. que traen ya [en los] ſombreros”
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 323