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

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