zabullir

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Spanish

Etymology

From older çabullir, from Old Spanish çabollir, çobollir, from older sobollir, sebollir, sebellir, from Vulgar Latin sepellīre~*sepullīre (bury), from Latin sepelīre. First syllable appears to have been influenced by semantically-related words words such as zapuzar (submerge) and zahondar (sink).[1]

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (most of Spain) /θabuˈʝiɾ/
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain) /θabuˈʎiɾ/
 
  • IPA(key): (most of Latin America) /sabuˈʝiɾ/
  • IPA(key): (Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /sabuˈʎiɾ/
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /sabuˈʃiɾ/
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /sabuˈʒiɾ/

  • Rhymes: -iɾ
  • Syllabification: za‧bu‧llir

Verb

zabullir (first-person singular present zabullo, first-person singular preterite zabullí, past participle zabullido)

  1. (transitive) to submerge
    Synonyms: sumergir, sumir

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1991) “zambullir”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume VI (Y–Z), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 61

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