handitu

Basque

Etymology

From handi (“big”) +‎ -tu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /handitu/ [hãn̪.d̪i.t̪u]
  • IPA(key): (Southern) /anditu/ [ãn̪.d̪i.t̪u]
  • Rhymes: -itu, -u
  • Hyphenation: han‧di‧tu

Verb

handitu da/du (imperfect participle handitzen, future participle handituko, short form handi, verbal noun handitze)

  1. to grow
  2. to enlarge

Derived terms

  • handitzaile (“enlarger”)

Further reading

  • “handitu”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
  • “handitu”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.