tadyang

Remontado Agta

Etymology

Compare Ibatan taglang, Kapampangan tagyang, Pangasinan taglang, and Tagalog tadyang.

Noun

tadyáng

1. (anatomy) rib

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• taryang — obsolete

Etymology

Borrowed from Kapampangan taggiang with sound shift from /ɡ/ to /d/, from Proto-Austronesian *tagəʀaŋ. Compare Ibatan taglang, and Pangasinan taglang.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tadˈjaŋ/ [t̪ɐˈd͡ʒaŋ]
• Rhymes: -aŋ
• Syllabification: tad‧yang

Noun

tadyáng (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜇ᜔ᜌᜅ᜔)

1. (anatomy) rib

   Synonyms: kostilyas, kostado

2. rib (cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones)

   Synonym: kostilyas

3. (botany) rib (main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf)
4. (by extension) rib (part or piece serving to shape or support something, as that of an umbrella)

Derived terms

• magtadyangan
• manadyang
• tadyang-anwang

 

Further reading

• “tadyang”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• 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 197: “Coſtilla) Tadyang [(pc)] de animal o perſona”
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*tageRaŋ”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI