Igorot

American  

[ig-uh-roht, ee-guh-] / ˌɪg əˈroʊt, ˌi gə- /

noun

• Igorots,
  plural
• Igorot
  plural

1. a member of a people of Malay descent in northern Luzon in the Philippines, comprising various tribes, noted for their metalwork and weaving.

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Igorot British  

/ ˌɪɡəˈrəʊt, ˌiːɡə-, ˌiːɡə- /

noun

1. a member of a Negrito people of the mountains of N Luzon in the Philippines: noted as early exponents of mining

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Igorot
  plural
• Igorots
  plural

Etymology

Origin of Igorot

First recorded in 1820–25; earlier Igorrot, from Spanish Yglote, from Igorot (an Austronesian language spoken by this people) Igōlot “mountain people,” equivalent to i- noun prefix + gōlot “mountain,” also the name of a mountain range

Example Sentences

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Igorot Igorots

It’s a safe bet that when you studied American history in high school, you didn’t learn about Maria Orosa, or the Alaskeros or Igorot people.

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023

Human-caused climate change has taken so much from her people, said Longid, a member of the Indigenous Igorot community.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2021

For official meetings, she favors the traditional attire of the Kankanaey Igorot: a woven red button-down coat, a wraparound skirt held in place by a wide, fringed cloth belt.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2018

Her parents, she said, were among the first educated generation of the Kankanaey Igorot indigenous community.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2018

They passed Igorot villages, narrowly missing chickens and pigs, then bounced across a river bed and into Bontoc.

From The Golden Skull by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

The society was also scandalized by the native dress of the Igorots, Rydell said.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 18, 2019

Ever since, V-J day has been Aug. 14 to the rest of the world but to his friends among the Igorots it is Sept.

From Time Magazine Archive

Back from the Igorots, who pleaded against immediate independence as did the Moros, Secretary Hurley made his first official utterance in the islands.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the Igorots, who are the type of the Filipinos, although they do not believe in the immortality of the soul, have many superstitions in regard to the shades of the dead....

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair

He also realized that they could be where he now stood before Tony could get up to where Angel and the Igorots waited.

From The Golden Skull by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin