piting

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English fitting.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pi‧ting

Adjective

piting

  1. tight-fitting

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

  • pyting

Adjective

piting (noun form pitinga)

  1. freckly; spotted (sprinkled with spots)
    Synonym: pinim
    • 1660, John Maurice of Nassau, Theatrum Rerum Naturalium Brasiliae (overall work in Latin); republished as Christian Mentzel, editor, São Paulo: Index, 1993:
      (please add the primary text of this quotation)
      [gûyrapitinga]
      spotted bird
  2. muddy; turbid (of a liquid; containing sediment in suspension)[1]
    • 1622, anonymous author, “Turuar assi a agoa”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 2 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 138; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:
      Aimoigpigting.
      [Aîmo'ypiting.]
      I make the water turbid.

Declension

    Declension of piting (consonant ending) (See Appendix:Old Tupi adjectives)
Note: not all forms are attested, most of the table is reconstructed based on known patterns.
Causative mopiting
Deadjectivals
-ba'e i pitingyba'e
-sab(a) pitingaba
Singular Singular & Plural Plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person exclusive 1st person inclusive 2nd person
Adjectival forms
Active
Indicative xe piting nde piting i piting oré piting îandé piting pe piting
Imperative
Permissive ta xe piting ta nde piting t'i piting t'oré piting t'îandé piting ta pe piting
Negative indicative na xe pitingi na nde pitingi n'i pitingi n'oré pitingi n'îandé pitingi na pe pitingi
Negative imperative nde piting umẽ pe piting umẽ
Negative permissive ta xe piting umẽ ta nde piting umẽ t'i piting umẽ t'oré piting umẽ t'îandé piting umẽ ta pe piting umẽ
Gerund
Affirmative xe pitingamo nde pitingamo o pitingamo oré pitingamo îandé pitingamo pe pitingamo
Negative xe pitinge'ymamo nde pitinge'ymamo o pitinge'ymamo oré pitinge'ymamo îandé pitinge'ymamo pe pitinge'ymamo
Nominal forms
Infinitive
Affirmative pitinga
Negative pitinge'yma
Circumstantial
Affirmative same as gerund1
xe pitingi2 i pitingi2 oré pitingi2 îandé pitingi2
Negative same as gerund1
xe pitinge'ymi2 i pitinge'ymi2 oré pitinge'ymi2 îandé pitinge'ymi2
1South Tupi
2North Tupi

References

  1. ^ Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Turva estar a agoa”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 41, column 2, line 7; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 257
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