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English
Noun
apid (plural apids)
- (zoology) Any bee in the family Apidae.
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Old Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
apid m
- inflection of ap:
- accusative/dative singular
- nominative/vocative/accusative dual
- nominative plural
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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apid
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
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unchanged
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n-apid
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *apid (“stacked up; in layers; joined together”). Compare Aklanon apid (“enclose”), Cebuano apid (“stack up”), Hiligaynon apid (“combine; fit together”), Waray-Waray apid (“put in rows”). See also Kankanaey apid and Central Bontoc apid which came from a separate Proto-Austronesian *qapid (“braid; twine”).
Pronunciation
Noun
apíd (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜉᜒᜇ᜔)
- concubinage; illicit cohabitation; illicit coitus
- Synonyms: agulo, kalunya
Derived terms
Further reading
- “apid”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*apid₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qapid”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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