Etymograph

English

Tagaytay

Tagaytay comes from Tagalog Tagaytay ‘mountain ridge’.

  1. TagalogmodernTagaytay‘mountain ridge’
  2. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. TagalogmodernTagaytay‘mountain ridge’
  2. Englishtodaysame form

The story

By folk etymology, from "taga, itay!", referring to the yells of a boy (with his father, hunting in the forest) that echoed on the mountains on the present location of the city.folk etymology The source marks this as unproven or a folk etymology. Quoted, not asserted.

Every English word from Tagalog Tagaytay

Today it means

name A city in Cavite, Philippines.

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