akyat
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- acyat, ac-yat, acquiat — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
- akiyat — obsolete
Etymology
From (Northern) Proto-Philippine *kayat (“to climb vertically (as ladder, tree)”) with metathesis. Compare Yami kalat, Ivatan kayat, Tuwali Ifugao kayat, Batad Ifugao āyat, and Kapampangan ukiat.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔakˈjat/ [ʔɐkˈjat̪̚]
- Rhymes: -at
- Syllabification: ak‧yat
Noun
akyát (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜃ᜔ᜌᜆ᜔)
- climb; ascent
- promotion; raise in rank or position
- income; earning (from a business)
- Synonym: panhik
- (colloquial) visit of a suitor to the girlfriend's house
- Synonym: (Batangas, Quezon) adyo
Derived terms
- akyat-bahay
- akyat-barko
- akyatan
- akyatin
- iakyat
- mag-akyat
- mang-akyat
- paakyat
- pag-aakyat
- pag-akyat
- saaakyat
- umakyat
- umakyat nang ligaw
See also
- taas
- ukyabit
Further reading
- “akyat”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*kayat”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero[1], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 561: “Subir) Acquiat (pc) acualquiera parte”