potinejar
التعريفات والمعاني
== Catalan ==
=== Etymology ===
From dialectal potina (“hodgepodge”) + -ejar.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): (Northern, Central) [pu.ti.nəˈʒa]
IPA(key): (Balearic) [po.ti.nəˈʒa]
IPA(key): (Valencia) [po.ti.neˈd͡ʒaɾ]
IPA(key): (Northwestern) [po.ti.neˈʒa]
=== Verb ===
potinejar (first-person singular present potinejo, first-person singular preterite potinegí, past participle potinejat); root stress: (Northern) /e̞/; (Balearic) /ə/; (Central) /ɛ/; (Northwestern, Valencia) /e/
(transitive) to fiddle with, to muck about with
(transitive) to bungle, to botch, to make a hash of
(intransitive) to muck about
==== Conjugation ====
==== Related terms ====
potiner
potineria
=== Further reading ===
“potinejar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
“potinejar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “potinejar”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)