"Amuy" is a word in ILOKANO, CEBUANO

v. /MANG-:-EN/ or /MANGI-: I-/ 1. to gather at the edge of table, floor, etc., e.g. dust. 2. to push back and put i. place e.g. hair. Amuyem ta book mo. Push your hair back in place. 1 -AN [pt. -IN--AN, prp. R1 + -AN, ptp. -IN- + R1 + -AN], a passive verbalizing prefix which focuses the location, goal, or cause of the action expressed by the verb. Its principal meanings are the following: 1. to do the action at a certai. place or to someone or something. Punasan na ta lamisaan. He will wipe that table. Pukisan na diay ubing. He will give the child a haircut. 2. to do the action at, from, toward or away from someone or something. Kinatawaan nak. He laughed at me. 3. to give or get (something) from (someone). Siak man ti gatangan yo ti asin. Please buy salt from me. 4. to put or add the thing identified or implied by the stem to something. Dinanuman na dayta ap-apoyem. He added water to what you are cooking. 5. to earn (something) by doing the action expressed by the stem. Salapi ti dinaitan na. He earned fifty centavos by sewing. 6. to pay for (something) with the amount indicated by the stem. Pisosan da daytoy bagas. They will pay one peso for this husked rice. 7. to do the action expressed by the verb because of something. Ania ti sangitan diay balasang? What is the young woman crying for? 8. to do (something) in the manner described by the stem. Pinartakan da ti nagtaray. They ran fast. -AN forms locative-focus verbs with the following verbalizing affixes: MAKA-, MAKI-, PAG-, PANG-, PANGI-, -UM-; see also MA--AN. 2 -AN, a nominalizing suffix meaning: that which is used to do the action expressed by the stem; e.g. gilingan, grinder. The first consonant and first vowel of some stems is reduplicated; e.g. sasakayan, that which is used as conveyance.

ámuy n term of address for very old men of respectability.
Kanà si Ámuy Militun kapitan sa panahun sa Katsílà, Amoy Meliton was a village head during the Spanish times.
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Ámuy n Amoy Chinese.

ámuy n {1} icon.
{2} the name of God used in speaking to small children.
Ayaw pangáway kay masukù ang ámuy, Dont quarrel because God will get angry.