tunaisa

Tagalog

Etymology

From *tuna- +‎ isa. Possibly contraction of taon na isa, according to Potet (2016).

Pronunciation

(Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tunaʔiˈsa/ [tʊ.nɐ.ʔɪˈsa]
Rhymes: -a
Syllabification: tu‧na‧i‧sa

Adverb

tunaisá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜈᜁᜐ)

(obsolete) next year
Synonyms: taong darating, susunod na taon, taong haharapin

Usage notes

For the following years, Fr. San José (1610) provided the following examples:
- tunaikalawa ― next two years
- tunaikatlo ― next three years
- tunaikapuwong taon ― next ten years
- tunaikalawangpuwong taon ― next twenty years

Further reading

Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
de San José, Francisco (1610) chapter 19, in Arte y reglas de la lengua Tagala, Thomas Pinpin, page 286
Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Numbers and Units in Old Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 319

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