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:

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     [gûyrapitinga]

     spotted bird

2. muddy; turbid (of a liquid; containing sediment in suspension)
   • 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

Related terms

• Paranapitinga
• pitinga

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “pitinga”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 384, column 1