I introduce you to "kwan" (or "kuan") from Visayan, which serves the same purpose.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DoesNotTranslate/comments/jmkvbd/fi...
Kwan is not just a time-filler word like "um." You can legit use it in a sentence as an object-filler word and people still understand.
"I was surfing at the kwan and ate some kwan with hot sauce." "Was it good?" "Oh yeah!"
I kind of think that there must be a vast amount of Filipino culture I don't know about. Big population, but little penetration of the culture in mainland USA.
Absolutely loved getting the chance to participate in it here and there. I miss speaking to native speakers.
The distinction of verbs and nouns in Austronesian languages generally are pretty lax.
Also cool, Tongan and Samoan speakers found Visayan numbering mutually distinguishable -- "lima" for 5, for example.
> "[E]asy conversion of nouns to verbs has been part of English grammar for centuries; it is one of the processes that make English English."
https://www.thoughtco.com/verbing-definition-1692587
Just like "jawn" is not unique (not even within English), in my experience there's almost nothing really unique in any language.
https://spanish.stackexchange.com/a/4839
The "w" sound keeps repeating in the themes here, interesting.
I'm not sure if the etymology is that an egg ("huevo") looks like a zero, so a dumb person or a loser is a "huevo" (an egg, meaning a zero) or "huevón" (huge zero), or if it has to do with testicles (because in Spanish it's common to call them eggs), so a "huevón" might someone who's "as dumb as a giant testicle". "Boludo" and "pelotudo" are more like the latter, for sure, though they could still derived from zero looking like a ball.
> The "w" sound keeps repeating in the themes here, interesting.
In weón it's really just a slight change from huevón, and mostly just dropping the 'v'.
"i-kwan mo yung kwan" -> "just thing the thing"