Galician

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Etymology 1

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Onomatopoeic. Compare Spanish hipo.

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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impo m (plural impos)

  1. hiccup
    Synonym: salouco
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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impo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of impar

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: im‧po

Etymology 1

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Deverbal from impar.

Noun

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impo m (plural impos)

  1. (regional) act or effect of crying or breathing with difficulty
  2. (regional) hiccups that children get after crying

Etymology 2

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Verb

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impo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of impar

Tagalog

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Etymology

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Either from the following:

Zorc (1985) records both etymologies but finds the Chinese etymology as less likely.[5]

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Noun

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impó (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜋ᜔ᜉᜓ)

  1. grandmother
    Synonyms: lola, lelang, abwela, (archaic) agwela, (dialectal) inana, inang-tanda, inda-poon

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References

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  1. ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*empu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
  2. ^ 晋江市方言志[1], (Can we date this quote?), page 51 (PDF) / 119 (Book)
  3. ^ 最新番婆弄公婆拖歌本[2], 上海市: 國立臺灣大學圖書館特藏組, 1913, page 8
  4. 4.0 4.1 Dictionario Hispánico-Sinicum[3] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish, Hokkien, and Classical Mandarin), kept as Vocabulario Español-Chino con caracteres chinos (TOMO 215) in the University of Santo Tomás Archives, Manila: Dominican Order of Preachers, 1626-1642, page 23/10 & 36/18 & 170/151 & 322/300; republished as Lee, Fabio Yuchung (李毓中), Chen, Tsung-jen (陳宗仁), José, Regalado Trota, Caño, José Luis Ortigosa, editors, Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series I: Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum[4], Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018, →ISBN
  5. ^ Zorc, David Paul (1985) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 4, page 179

Further reading

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  • impo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018