wagwag

Kankanaey

Pronunciation

• (Standard Kankanaey) IPA^(key): /waɡˈwaɡ/ [wʌɡ̚ˈwʌɡ̚]
• Rhymes: -aɡ
• Syllabification: wag‧wag

Noun

wagwág

1. act of removing a fish from an ugat trap
2. act of shaking
3. (by extension, colloquial) clothes bought at a wagwagan
4. act of drilling or piercing holes

   Synonym: weswes

Derived terms

• iwagwag
• wagwagan

 

References

• Morice Vanoverbergh (1933) “wagwág”, in A Dictionary of Lepanto Igorot or Kankanay. As it is spoken at Bauco (Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek; XII)‎^[1] (in English and Kankanaey), Mödling bei Wien, St. Gabriel, Österreich: Verlag der Internationalen Zeitschrift „Anthropos“, →OCLC, page 496

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /waɡˈwaɡ/ [wɐɡˈwaɡ̚]
• Rhymes: -aɡ
• Syllabification: wag‧wag

Etymology 1

From Proto-Philippine *wagwág (“shake something vigorously (as a sack to remove the contents)”). The sense “clothes bought” is a semantic loan from Ilocano wagwag.

Noun

wagwág (Baybayin spelling ᜏᜄ᜔ᜏᜄ᜔)

1. act of shaking something to rid it of things clinging on it (especially water, dust, etc.)

   Synonyms: pagpag, pagpapagpag

2. (colloquial) clothes bought at a wagwagan

   Synonyms: ukay-ukay, ukay

   Mga wagwag lang 'tong mga damit ko.

   These clothes of mine are bought at a wagwagan.

Derived terms

• iwagwag
• magwagwag
• pagwawagwag
• wagwagan
• wagwagin

 

Etymology 2

From Proto-Philippine *wagwág (“rice variety”).

Noun

wagwág (Baybayin spelling ᜏᜄ᜔ᜏᜄ᜔)

1. variety of first-class rice

Further reading

• “wagwag” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino‎^[2], Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
• “wagwag”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*wagwág”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Anagrams

• gawgaw