angay
English: Translation
Suitable, fitting, appropriate, becoming, or well matched to a person, object, purpose, circumstance, or occasion.
Part of Speech
adjective
Notes
angay
adj.; v.
1. adj.
2. v.
To suit; look becoming on; complement or go well with something in appearance, grooming, fashion, decoration, color, style, or taste.
Usage
Angay saimo ana kopya’ mo.
“Your hat suits you well.”
“That hat looks becoming on you.”
Semantic note
Angay does not primarily mean that two things are identical. It indicates that they properly correspond or are appropriate to each other.
This makes it relevant to the language of justice through the concept of fitness or appropriateness: what is given, required, or decided should be angay to the person and circumstances.
Cebuano dictionaries likewise associate angay with fitting, matching, suitability, and moral appropriateness.
Compare
- paryo — equal, alike, or on the same level.
- tukma — exact or accurately corresponding.
- angay — fitting or appropriate, even when the two things are not equal.
| Boie’nen | Concrete schema | Abstract implication |
| rigay | leaning from the upright | bias; departure from right order |
| towaw | tilting under unequal loading | one-sidedness; disproportion |
| olay | actively counterbalancing loads | equity; compensatory balance |
| karis | removing excess to a fixed measure | fair and standardized measurement |
| paryo | equal or level | equality and parity |
| angay | appropriate or fitting | proportionality; what is due |
| osay | restoring proper order | rectification |
| taxaytay | orderly alignment | systemic order |
| e-tay | tension maintained between supports | equilibrium within opposing forces |