ipa-

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *ipa- (verb prefix: third-party causative-command). By surface analysis, i- +‎ pa-.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔipa/ [ʔɪ.pɐ]
• Syllabification: i‧pa-

ipá- (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜉ)

1. (causative) to have or ask something done

   ipa- + gawa (“to do”) → ipagawa (“to have someone do something”)

   Ipagawa mo 'yan sa kanya.

   Have him do that

2. (accusative) to do something to something or someone

   ipa- + malas (“to show”) → ipamalas (“to show”)

3. (accusative) to make a slightly reproachful or supplicative request to have done something unattended or done improperly

   ipa- + luto-luto (“to cook”) → ipaluto-luto (“to have cooked a bit more”)

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*ipa-”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

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