ta-on
English: Translation
year
English: Definition
A period of one year; the conventional annual unit of time.
Part of Speech
noun
Semantic Domain
Time
Notes
#449, Yamada
Notes: Contrast taon “jump or leap down/out from an elevated position.” The bantere’ in ta-on is phonemically contrastive and must be preserved. Comparative evidence supports “year” as inherited from PMP taqun; Central Bikol similarly has ta’on “year.”
Linguistic History
Inherited Philippine/Austronesian time word, ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian ***taqun*** “year.” The historical reconstruction supports the medial interruption represented by Boie’nen bantere’.