pertànyer

Inherited from Old Catalan tànyer, itself from Latin tangere (“touch”), and influenced by the derivative pertingere (“to stretch out, extend, arrive, reach, obtain”) and by pertinēre (“to pertain”), which gave Old Catalan pertenir (eventually being replaced by pertànyer).^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pərˈta.ɲə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [peɾˈta.ɲeɾ]

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pertànyer (first-person singular present pertanyo, first-person singular preterite pertanyí, past participle pertangut or pertanyut)

1. to belong, to pertain

• pertanyent
• pertinent
• pertinença

• “pertànyer”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “pertànyer” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pertànyer” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.