kotat
Sense 1
English: Translation
The clucking sound made by hens, especially after laying an egg.
Semantic Domain
Birds
Sense 2
English: Translation
Idiomatically, to be exposed or revealed as the culprit or wrongdoer by being overly reactive or defensive, often through hasty or suspicious behavior.
Semantic Domain
Ideophones, Expressives & Onomatopoeia
Birds
Notes
see: tora’gok
kotat
n., v. (onomatopoeic)
n.
The clucking of a hen, especially the loud, repetitive call (kot-kot-KOTAT) after laying an egg.
Nagkotat na yo manok, ominomon na.
“The hen clucked—it has already laid an egg.”
v.
To cluck; to announce egg-laying.
Derivation: ko-motat / komotat “to cluck”
Idiom (v.):
To incriminate oneself by reacting prematurely—speaking or defending oneself before being accused.
Di’ pa ika pionga’, nikotat na ika.
“You weren’t even asked, yet you’re already clucking.”
Sense extension:
From literal “revealing the nest” → figurative “revealing one’s guilt.”
IPA: /ˈko.tat/
tora'gok → cyclical / time-marking (rooster, dawn)
- ta'gok → projected /intentional (human signal, mythic extension)
- kotat → event-announcing (egg-laying→ self-revelation metaphor)
- siyap → need-based (hunger/contact)
- kakak → distress/alarm
- oni → general/default categor
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