sisiwa
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish chichigua (“wet nurse”), from Taíno chichigua.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: si‧si‧wa
- IPA(key): /siˈsiwa/, [sɪˈsi.wɐ]
Noun
sisiwa (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜐᜒᜏ)
- wet nurse
- Synonyms: mamay, yaya
See also
- nars
Further reading
- Fr. Juan José de Noceda; Fr. Pedro de Sanlucar (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish & Tagalog), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- Lopez, Cecilio (1965), “The Spanish overlay in Tagalog”, in Lingua, volume 14, DOI:, ISSN 0024-3841