paniyo

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pəñu, from Proto-Austronesian *pəñu. Compare Maguindanao penu, Malay penyu, and Brunei Malay panyu.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /paniˈoʔ/, [pɐˈɲoʔ]
Hyphenation: pa‧ni‧yo
Homophone: panyo

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 (2010–) “*peñu”, in The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

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