The Tagalog word "Minindal"



I was scrolling through my Facebook feed when this post caught my eye. At first, I did not know what minindal meant but of course, after a few seconds, I realized it was a Tagalized form of the Spanish word merendar. It was the first time I ever encountered this word because I am only familiar with the Filipino word meryenda. I'm curious if it can also become a verb by adding a prefix at the beginning just like meryenda.

Cebuano is full of Spanish verbs in the infinitive form like imbitar and salbar, and aside from minindal, other Spanish infinitives present in Tagalog or Filipino are almusal (almorzar), kumpisal (confesar) and sugal (jugar)

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