paniyo

Tagalog

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /paniˈoʔ/ [pɐˈɲoʔ]
• Rhymes: -oʔ
• Syllabification: pa‧ni‧yo

Noun

paniyô (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜈᜒᜌᜓ) (obsolete)

1. (large) turtle

   Synonym: pagong

Usage notes

• Indicated as seldom used as early as 1860 in Vocabulario de la lengua tagala.

See also

• pahas
• pawikan

 

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^[1] (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