pilpil
Chinook Jargon
editEtymology
editReduplication of pil (“red”).
Noun
editpilpil
Classical Nahuatl
editEtymology
editFrom pilli (“child”) + -pīl. Molina attests the plural form pīpilpipīl, from which the singular form can be deduced. Sahagún attests the singular form with the meaning (“five or six year-old child”). The plural form, as described by Carochi, is notable for its mirrored relative vowel length, resulting from the reduplication of both the stem pilli (“child”) (plural pīpiltin) and the diminutive postposition -pil, which undergoes short-vowel reduplication when pluralized (-pipīl).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpilpīl (animate, plural pīpilpipīl)
- diminutive of pilli; a child or youth.
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 82r. col. 2:
- Pipilpipil.muchachuelos.
- Pipilpipil.youngsters [boys or young men].
Synonyms
editReferences
edit- Frances Karttunen (1992) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Oklahoma Press, page 43
- Horacio Carochi (2001) James Lockhart, transl., Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 43
- Alonso de Molina (2008) Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana (1571), Mexico: Editorial Porrúa, page 82
Spanish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
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Noun
editpilpil m (plural pilpiles)
- (Chile) Boquila trifoliolata (a species of flowering plants in the family Lardizabalaceae)
Etymology 2
editNoun
editpilpil m (uncountable)
- Alternative form of pil-pil
Further reading
edit- “pilpil”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Classical Nahuatl diminutive nouns
- Classical Nahuatl terms with quotations
- nci:People
- Spanish 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/il
- Rhymes:Spanish/il/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
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- Spanish masculine nouns
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