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Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buntut (“rear end of a chicken”). Compare Malay buntut.
Pronunciation
Noun
buntót (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜈ᜔ᜆᜓᜆ᜔)
- tail (of an animal, etc.)
- act of tailing someone
- Synonyms: sunod, pagsunod-sunod
- posterior; rear; last part or end (of a long line, etc.)
- Synonyms: dulo, huli, hulihan
- (figurative) result; outcome
- Synonym: bunga
- train (of a dress, skirt, etc.)
- tail feather (of birds)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “buntot”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*buntut”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI