bogsokan
Phonetic
[ˈbog.sok.an]
English: Translation
waterfall; a place where water plunges steeply downward. (bogsok “head-first downward plunge” + -an locative suffix).
Part of Speech
noun
Notes
see: bogsok
bogsok + -an
Noun (Locative / Venue)
This is a beautiful example of landscape vocabulary derived from body-orientation imagery, where the motion of water is conceptualized like a body plunging head-first.
The seven falls in Buhi are named as follows:
Itbeg
Baybay
Binangka’an
Libtong
Kinawali’an
Lapnisan
Besay