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Special interests are more intense than typical interests, such as hobbies, [2] and may take up much of a person's free time. A person with a special interest will often hyperfocus on their special interest for hours, want to learn as much as possible on the topic, [3] collect related items, [4] and incorporate their special interest into play [5] and art. [6] Some interests are more likely to ...
Etymology[edit] The commonly perpetuated origin for the endonym "Tagalog" is the term tagá-ilog, which means "people from [along] the river" (the prefix tagá- meaning "coming from" or "native of"). However, this explanation is a mistranslation of the correct term tagá-álog, which means "people from the ford ". [2] [3]
Loanwords that underwent semantic shift Upon adoption into Tagalog, a number of Spanish-derived terms underwent a process of semantic shift or change in meaning. A loanword is said to have undergone a semantic shift if its meaning in Tagalog deviates from the original meaning of the word in the source language (in this case, Spanish).
The indigenous religious beliefs of the Tagalog people (sometimes referred to as Anitism, [1] [2] or, less accurately, using the general term animism) were well documented by Spanish missionaries, [3] mostly in the form of epistolary accounts ( relaciones) and entries in various dictionaries compiled by missionary friars.
Traditional Filipino games or indigenous games in the Philippines ( Tagalog: Laro ng Lahi) [1] [2] [3] are games that are played across multiple generations, usually using native materials or instruments.
In the indigenous religion of the ancient Tagalogs, Bathalà/Maykapál was the transcendent Supreme God, [1] the originator and ruler of the universe. He is commonly known and referred to in the modern era as Bathalà, a term or title which, in earlier times, also applied to lesser beings such as personal tutelary spirits, omen birds, comets, and other heavenly bodies which the early Tagalog ...
Jargon, also referred to as "technical language", is "the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group". [8] Most jargon is technical terminology ( technical terms ), involving terms of art [9] or industry terms, with particular meaning within a specific industry. The primary driving forces in the creation of ...
A thesaurus ( pl.: thesauri or thesauruses ), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms. They ...