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Cebuano
Prefix
hing-
- denotes inclination, habit or propensity
Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hin-, from Proto-Austronesian *Sin-.
Pronunciation
Prefix
hing- (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜅ᜔) (no longer productive)
- prefix indicating removal or cleaning
- hing- + kuto (“louse”) → hinguto (“to remove lice (from hair or fur)”)
- prefix indicating state or condition
- hi- + ganti (“return, reward”) → higanti (“revenge”)
- him- + pasok (“to enter, go in”) → himasok (“to meddle, interfere”)
- him- + patay (“dead, to kill”) → himatay (“to lose consciousness, faint”)
- hin- + sakit (“sickness, pain”) (with CV- reduplication) → hinanakit (“grudge, ill will”)
Derived terms
Further reading
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*Sin-”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI