Bisayan grammar and notes on Bisayan rhetoric and poetics and Filipino dialectology

by Norberto Romuáldez

The collectives take also the form of the figuratives with or without the particles ca and an, as the use may permit, as [[39]]

caborobong̃tóhan,

borobóng̃to.

NOTE.—There is another class of nouns which may be called depreciative. They are limited in number. The following belong to such class:

for batà (child),

• nagbobóto (a being born thru an explosion)
• lumátud (person of big abdomen)
• lugtuc,[46]
• motatô[47]
• motó, from botó (report of a gun, explosion);

for anác (son or daughter)

• nahólbot (past participle of “hólbot” to pull out of a hole);

for baba (mouth)

• nasárag (of “sárag” to put something in the mouth);

for camót (hand)