pisau

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Indonesian

pisau

Etymology

From Malay pisau.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: pi‧sau

Noun

pisau (first-person possessive pisauku, second-person possessive pisaumu, third-person possessive pisaunya)

  1. knife

Further reading

Lithuanian

Verb

pisau

  1. first-person singular past of pisti

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pisaw (“kind of knife or machete”) reconstructed by Robert Blust. He included several reflexes in Oceanic languages (cf. Bola viso (“knife”) and Nakanai la-viso (“knife”)).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

pisau (Jawi spelling ڤيساو, plural pisau-pisau, informal 1st possessive pisauku, 2nd possessive pisaumu, 3rd possessive pisaunya)

  1. knife

Descendants

  • Indonesian: pisau

References

  1. ^ Austronesian Comparative Dictionary - *pisaw

Further reading

Romanian

Pronunciation

Verb

pisau

  1. third-person plural imperfect indicative of pisa
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