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Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pəñu, from Proto-Austronesian *pəñu. Compare Maguindanao penu, Malay penyu, Brunei Malay panyu, and Javanese ꦥꦼꦚꦸ (penyu).
Pronunciation
Noun
paniyô (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜈᜒᜌᜓ) (obsolete)
- (large) turtle
- Synonym: pagong
Usage notes
- Indicated as seldom used as early as 1860 in Vocabulario de la lengua tagala.
See also
Further reading
- “paniyo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier, page 241: “PANIYÓ. pc. Tortuga. Es poco usado.”
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*peñu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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