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Tagalog
Etymology 1
Either from Proto-Philippine *kataŋ, or cognate to Malay ketam, which came from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kt₁aːm (“crab”) (cf. Khmer ក្ដាម (kdaam), Vietnamese đam, Mon ဂတာံ (hətam)).
Pronunciation
Noun
katáng (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜆᜅ᜔)
- small freshwater crab
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Etymology 2
Borrowed from Hokkien 加重 (ka-tăng, “to add weight”). Compare with Hiligaynon kadang (“stilts”).
Pronunciation
Noun
katang (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜆᜅ᜔)
- tow tilting a boat with a heavy load
- support; stand; counterweight; base supporting something
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Further reading
- “katang”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- 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, page 86: “CATANG. pp. navio que boga por mal cargado”
- 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, page 377: “CATANG. pc. cangrejillos pequeños”
- Zorc, David Paul (1981) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 2, page 82
- Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 131
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*kataŋ”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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