kiti

kiti

1. (Banawá) strong

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

kiti

1. chair

Cognates include Yoruba òkìtì.

• IPA^(key): /kì.tì/

kìtì (plural kìtìzhì)

1. heap
2. somersault

   Synonym: kángi

kiti (Cyrillic spelling кити)

1. dative/locative singular of kita

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kiti (ki-vi class, plural viti)

1. chair (furniture)
2. seat

• kiti cha gurudumu (“wheelchair”)
• kiti cha enzi (“throne”)

• IPA^(key): /kiˈtiʔ/, [kɪˈtiʔ]
• Hyphenation: ki‧ti

Borrowed from Hokkien, the first syllable of which most likely is from 雞／鸡 (ke, “chicken”), as noted by Chan-Yap (1980). The second syllable is proposed by Chan-Yap (1980) to mean “young; tender”, proposing the character 弟 (tī), which has no such meaning, but a similar sounding character 稚 (tī, “young; immature”) does.

kitî (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜒᜆᜒ)

1. small chick; young of bird

   Synonyms: sisiw, inakay

kitî (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜒᜆᜒ)

1. start of ebullition; appearance of small bubbles before boiling; effervescence

   Synonyms: bulak, sulak, bukal

• kulo

kitî (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜒᜆᜒ)

1. Alternative form of kiliti

• kitiin

• “kiti”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 134
• Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 32