silet
See also: šílet
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From English Gillette, the name of a popular company producing safety razors, named after their inventor and the company's founder, King C. Gillette.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
silèt (first-person possessive siletku, second-person possessive siletmu, third-person possessive siletnya)
- razor blade
- Synonym: pisau cukur
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Ternate: silet
Further reading edit
- “silet” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Latin edit
Verb edit
silet
Maltese edit
Root |
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s-l-t |
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Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
silet (imperfect jislet, past participle mislut, verbal noun slit)
- to extract, draw out, pull out
- to thin, to make something thin
- to detach
- to take from [+ minn (object)]
- Kliem mislut mid-diskors ta’ George Vella. ― Words taken from the speech of George Vella.
- (lil + pronoun + ruħ/qalb + pronoun) to affect, to move
- kliemek silitli ruħi ― Your words moved me.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of silet | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
perfect | m | slitt | slitt | silet | slitna | slittu | siltu | |
f | siltet | |||||||
imperfect | m | nislet | tislet | jislet | nisiltu | tisiltu | jisiltu | |
f | tislet | |||||||
imperative | islet | isiltu |
Ternate edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Indonesian silet, from English Gillette.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
silet
References edit
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh