Wondering if this means anything in Binisaya...
Hello. Some years ago, I heard the following: "Isa untah". I never knew what it meant, or what language it was, but it stuck with me. (And I'm not absolutely sure of the spelling -- "untah" might be "unta".)
Just today (Saturday, October 30, 2010), I happened to be reading on the Internet about the "Cebuano" language, and came across the fact that "isa", in Cebuano, can mean "one" or "raise". What I remember of what I heard suggests to me that "isa", in the context of what I heard, meant "one". But I cannot determine if "Isa untah" (or "Isa unta") might mean anything in Cebuano/Binisaya (or any other closely-related Filipino language, since it seems that what I heard was Filipino, apparently).
If anyone can offer any help, I would greatly appreciate it.
Sincerely,
Douglas J. Bender
(Elkhart, Indiana [USA])
it depends on what he/she's
it depends on what he/she's trying to say or mean and if there's another word or words that she say after she said "isa unta"..
if she is referring to herself "isa unta ko" "ko" means "I" in english it could mean, "Hope I'm one of "or" hope im the one.....", if she's referring to somebody "isa unta siya"..siya means he/she him/her, so "hope he/she's one of "or" hope he/she's the one......" if she's referring to another else aside from person, ex. on things, "isa unta na", na means "it" as referring to things "hope it's one of or hope its the one that...hope it helps...and get what you really want to know..
..cebuano or visayan language/dialect is as complicated as english but it is easy to learn...