gorilya
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Cebuano[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English gorilla. from Ancient Greek Γόριλλαι (Górillai, “a tribe of hairy women”), described by Hanno the Navigator, a Carthaginian navigator and possible visitor to the area that later became Sierra Leone.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: go‧ril‧ya
Noun[edit]
gorilya
Tagalog[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Either from the following:
- Pseudo-Hispanism, derived from English gorilla, and influenced by the pronunciation of Philippine Spanish ⟨ll⟩ (/ʎ/), as per lleísmo.
- Borrowed from archaic Spanish gorilla or gorrilla.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gorilya (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜇᜒᜎ᜔ᜌ)
Further reading[edit]
- “gorilya”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Categories:
- Cebuano terms borrowed from English
- Cebuano terms derived from English
- Cebuano terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Cebuano lemmas
- Cebuano nouns
- ceb:Hominids
- Tagalog terms derived from English
- Tagalog pseudo-loans from Spanish
- Tagalog terms derived from Spanish
- Tagalog 3-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- tl:Hominids