kalingkingan

• calinquing̃an, calingquing̃an, calincqing̃an – Abecedario orthography, obsolete
• kalinkingan

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *k<al>iŋkiŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kiŋkiŋ. Compare Asi kamayingking, Aklanon kumaeengking, Cebuano kumayingking, Hiligaynon kamalingking, Waray-Waray kamuyingking, Yakan kingking, Maguindanao kingking, Tausug kingking, Malay kelingking, Old Javanese kaliṅkiṅan, and Tok Pisin kilikili. By surface analysis, *kalingking +‎ an, the root from *kingking +‎ *-al-. (c.f. Malay -el- infix).

• Hyphenation: ka‧ling‧ki‧ngan
• IPA^(key): /ˌkaliŋˈkiŋan/, [ˌka.lɪŋˈki.ŋɐn]

kálingkíngan (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜒᜅ᜔ᜃᜒᜅᜈ᜔)

1. (anatomy) little finger or little toe; pinky

   Synonym: hinliliit

2. (figurative) bound; boundary; confine; limit
   • 2016, owwSIC, That Promdi Girl: Book 3‎, page 45:

     Kumpara sa'yo, 'yang hinanakit mo, wala pa sa kalingkingan ng mga hinanakit na naranasan ko.

     Compared to you, that hurt in you, it's not yet at the bounds of the hurt I experienced.

• “kalingkingan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
• Fr. Juan José de Noceda; Fr. Pedro de Sanlucar (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish & Tagalog), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• Fr. Pedro de San Buena Ventura (1613), Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 219: “Dedo) Calingcqing̃an (pp) q̃ llamanos meñique”