liit

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• IPA^(key): /ˈliˑt/, [ˈlʲiˑtˑ]
• Rhymes: -iˑt
• Hyphenation: liit

liit (genitive liidu, partitive liitu)

1. alliance, union (an agreement between independent parties for joint action, to achieve common goals)
2. association, union (an organization comprising persons or institutions operating in the same field)

• liitsõna

• liit in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “liit”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

From Central Proto-Philippine *Diət (“small; little; few”). Compare Kapampangan dit / lati, Bikol Central diit / dikit / sadit, Hanunoo dait, and Cebuano diyot. Doublet of juts. Possibly related to Proto-Austronesian *dikit. Compare Malay dikit.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /liˈʔit/ [lɪˈʔit̪̚]
  • Rhymes: -it
• (now dialectal, Southern Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈliʔit/ [ˈliː.ʔɪt̪̚]
  • Rhymes: -iʔit
• Syllabification: li‧it

liít (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜁᜆ᜔)

1. smallness; littleness

   Synonyms: kaliitan, linggit, kalinggitan

2. (obsolete) pulverization; granularization; grinding into tiny bits

• liyit — obsolete

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈliʔit/ [ˈliː.ʔɪt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -iʔit
• Syllabification: li‧it

liit (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜁᜆ᜔) (obsolete)

1. loop around the neck

• “liit”, 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
• Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎^[2] (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[3], La Noble Villa de Pila
  • page 240: “Deſmenuçar) Liyit (pp) algo”
  • page 418: “Menudo) Liyit (pp) como arena o lo muy molido”
  • page 428: “Moler) Liyit (pp) vna coſa mucho haſta haçello poluos”

• tili

Cognate with Serer liit (“flute”), Fula liital (“flute”), Badyara ka-liit.

liit

1. a woodwind instrument made of a reed, flute

• Fal, Arame, Santos, Rosine, Doneux, Jean Léonce (1990) Dictionnaire wolof-français, Paris: Éditions KARTHALA, →ISBN, page 124