pseudo-verb used to indicate quoted speech

Dupaningan

Reid 1971

pause word used to fill in when the speaker cannot think of the right word; word used to avoid saying a taboo word

Post and Gardner 1992

to say

Reid 1976, Reid p.c.

pause word used to fill in when the speaker cannot think of the right word; um, well

Wolff 1972

what do you call it? what’s his name?

Conklin 1953, Reid p.c.

to say, tell something

Ballard 2011

what one says, one’s word; quotative verb, he said, etc.

Ballard 2011

particle of interrogation, the question being made to obtain a clarification of a doubt, or to elicit an answer

Lambrecht 1978

term used to replace nouns or roots that the speaker cannot name by word due to lack of memory

Rubino 2000, Carro 1956

thing, property; also: a decent term for “genitals”, especially of women

Vanoverbergh 1972

whatchamacallit; euphemism for genitals

Tharp and Natividad 1976

to do, to make

Tharp and Natividad 1976

a circumlocution for someone or something which is not verbalized purposely, or because the name is forgotten; so and so, such and such

Antonissen 1958

thing; property, estate, fortune; pudenda, secret parts, secrets, genital organs

Vanoverbergh 1933

to take offense

Neumann 1951

to speak

Neumann 1951

to speak, to say

Cense 1979

as for, regarding, concerning

hesitation form

McKaughan and Macaraya 1967

say; believe; word

Morris 1900

said, though (followed by attributive particle or pronoun)

Benton 1971

to say

van der Veen 1940

an expression of indefiniteness very much used to fill up a gap in speech; equivalent to the English “so-and-so”, some person not named, or “what do you call it” for something not named

Panganiban 1966

thingamajig, thingamabob, what’s-it (a word used for whatever one cannot immediately or exactly express, but is usually understood)

Hassan, Ashley and Ashley 1994

what someone says or means; utterance

Schwarz 1908

what is said, thought or intended

Schwarz 1908

to say, invite

Schwarz 1908

so-and-so, that way

Rau, Dong, et al. 2012, Tsuchida 1987

someone, something, sometime

Rau, Dong, et al. 2012, Tsuchida 1987

to say

Rau, Dong, et al. 2012, Tsuchida 1987

what else to do

Rau, Dong, et al. 2012, Tsuchida 1987