paling
English
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editEtymology 1
editVerb
editpaling
- present participle and gerund of pale
Etymology 2
editFrom Middle English palyng, palynge, equivalent to pale + -ing.
Noun
editpaling (plural palings)
- A pointed stick used to make a fence.
- 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 20, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings[2], New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 117:
- The boys continued hitting the tennis ball with pailings snatched from a fence […]
- 1997, Richard Flanagan, chapter 6, in The Sound of One Hand Clapping, New York: Grove Press, published 2014:
- The smell of the damp eucalypt palings that clad the walls exhaling their aromatic resin into the house, mingling with the fragrance of the myrtle burning in the fireplace.
- A fence made of palings.
- 1789, Alderman Le MesurierJohn Le Mesurier (Alderney), addressing the House of Commons, in The Parliamentary Register,Hansard London: John Debrett, Volume 26, p. 172,[3]
- Gentlemen must have observed that many of the nurserymen’s plantations were wide and extensive, some of them covering several acres; and that their palings and fences were for the most part low, and might be so weak and out of repair, as to afford a very insufficient security against the inroads of robbers and spoilers.
- 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 12, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
- The park paling was still the boundary on one side, and she soon passed one of the gates into the ground.
- 1878, Henry James, An International Episode[4]:
- The wide doors and windows of the restaurant stood open, beneath large awnings, to a wide pavement, where there were other plants in tubs, and rows of spreading trees, and beyond which there was a large shady square, without any palings, and with marble-paved walks.
- 1789, Alderman Le MesurierJohn Le Mesurier (Alderney), addressing the House of Commons, in The Parliamentary Register,Hansard London: John Debrett, Volume 26, p. 172,[3]
- (Caribbean) A fence made of galvanized sheeting.[1]
- 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas[5], London: André Deutsch, Part One, Chapter 3, p. 118:
- He worked badly. He had to paint a large sign on a corrugated iron paling. Doing letters on a corrugated surface was bad enough; to paint a cow and a gate, as he had to, was maddening.
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editAfrikaans
editEtymology
editFrom Dutch paling, from Middle Dutch paeldinc, from Old Dutch *pathelink.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpaling (plural palings, diminutive palinkie)
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editDutch
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Dutch palinc, padelinc, paeldinc, from Old Dutch paelding, paleding, palezinc. The original form seems to be *palathing (attested in the placename Palathingadīc) or, as some sources prefer, *pathaling. This has no cognates outside Dutch and probably goes back to a substrate language. As the oldest attestation is (latinised) palengus, one could alternatively see the -th- as excrescent and thus derived the word from Proto-West Germanic *pāl (“pole”) after the fish's shape. While this is less likely, the distinction sometimes made between aal (“juvenile eel”) and paling (“large, adult eel”) may indeed have been influenced by association with paal.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpaling m (plural palingen, diminutive palinkje n)
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editDescendants
editIndonesian
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editInherited from Malay paling. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Adverb
editpaling
- most
- Synonym: teramat
- forms the superlative of many adjectives
- to a great extent or degree; very
Etymology 2
editInherited from Malay paling, from Proto-Malayic *paliŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paliŋ. Compare with Tagalog paling.
Verb
editpaling
- to spin
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “paling” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Malay
editPronunciation
editNoun
editpaling
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editAdjective
editpaling (Jawi spelling ڤاليڠ)
Adverb
editpaling (Jawi spelling ڤاليڠ)
Synonyms
editDescendants
edit- Indonesian: paling
Further reading
edit- “paling” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Tagalog
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paliŋ.
Pronunciation
edit- (Standard Tagalog)
- Syllabification: pa‧ling
Noun
editpaling (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜒᜅ᜔)
- turn, inclination of the head
- Synonyms: baling, kiling, hilig, pagtagilid, pagpihit
Derived terms
editAdjective
editpalíng (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜒᜅ᜔)
Further reading
edit- “paling” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino[6], Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
- “paling”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*paliŋ”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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editWest Makian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Indonesian paling.
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editpaling
Usage notes
editPrecedes the verb it modifies.
References
edit- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[7], Pacific linguistics
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- en:Walls and fences
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