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Tagalog
Etymology
Early borrowing of Spanish castañetas, plural of castañeta.
Pronunciation
Noun
kastanitas (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜐ᜔ᜆᜈᜒᜆᜐ᜔)
- Obsolete form of kastanyetas.
Further reading
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte. (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 151: “Castañetas) Castanitas (pp) eſtos ni las tenian ni las vſaban [en ſus] bayles, y alas ande prendido”