cupiluain Alan King's standard spelling: kupilua
Todd (1953) · Nahuizalco
- Spanish
- colgar
-kupilua
transitive verb/ku·pi·lu·a/
Meanings
- 1
to hang
Documented in Nahuizalco: Todd (1953), Izalco: Schultze Jena (1935), recorded 1930, Santo Domingo de Guzmán: Campbell (1985), recorded 1970–1976
Sources: Schultze Jena (1935), Todd (1953), Campbell (1985), Hernández (2019), Ordóñez (2026)
Forms
- preterite
- kikupilujketplural · Sources: Schultze Jena (1935)kikupiluj · Sources: Campbell (1985)nikupilukrecorded in Izalco: Schultze Jena (1935), recorded 1930
- perfect
- tikupilujtiwitplural · Sources: Ordóñez (2026)nikupilujtuk · Sources: Schultze Jena (1935)
- imperative
- shikupilu · Sources: Campbell (1985)
- object-less form
- takupilua · Sources: Campbell (1985)
- participle
- kupilkatukrecorded in Izalco: Schultze Jena (1935), recorded 1930
In the texts
- kupilkatuk3 times
- kikupilujketonce
The records this word rests on, as each source gives them, with reading errors from the scans corrected.
- ku-piluin Alan King's standard spelling: kupilua
Schultze Jena (1935) · Izalco
- Spanish
- colgar
- With prefixes (inferred by King)
- kik-, nik-
- Preterite (inferred by King)
- -kupiluk, -kupilujket
- Perfect (inferred by King)
- -kupilujtuk
- kupilua
Campbell (1985) · Santo Domingo de Guzmán
- Town
- Santo Domingo de Guzmán (W)
- Spanish
- colgar
- English
- to hang
- pres.
- kupilua
- pret.
- kupiluh
- perf.
- kupiluh-tuk
- Example
- xi-k-kupilu
- hang it!
- See also
- ta-kupilua "to be hanging (something)"
- See also
- (?) ku- 'head', pilua "to hang"
- On the etymology
- CN cf. quappiloa (Sim.) aplicarse
vt - ta-kupiluain Alan King's standard spelling: takupilua
Campbell (1985) · Santo Domingo de Guzmán
- Town
- Santo Domingo de Guzmán (W)
- Function
- unspec. obj.
- Spanish
- colgar
- English
- to hang, to be hanging (something)
- See also
- ta- 'unspec. obj.', kupilua "to hang"
vt - -Kupiluain nahuat.com's standard spelling: Kupilua
Hernández (2019) · No town
- Spanish
- colgar
verbo transitivo- As printed
- -Kupilua colgar
- kupilua
Ordóñez (2026) · No town
- Definition
- colgar, clavar. Tikupilujtiwit ne ishkalyu nunan tech ne tapepechul, te nikneki nikelkawa. Hemos colgado el retrato de mi mamá en la pared, no quiero olvidarla. [4]
v tr.- As printed
- kupilua v tr. colgar, clavar. Tikupilujtiwit ne ishkalyu nunan tech ne tapepechul, te nikneki nikelkawa. Hemos colgado el retrato de mi mamá en la pared, no quiero olvidarla. [4]
Sources
- Schultze Jena, Mythen in der Muttersprache der Pipil von Izalco (1935), recorded 1930
- Todd, Notas del náhuat de Nahuizalco (1953)
- Campbell, The Pipil Language of El Salvador (1985), recorded 1970–1976
- Hernández, Nawat Mujmusta (2019)
- Ordóñez, Diccionario náhuat (2026)