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Cebuano
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish cuentas, plural of cuenta (“bead (small spherical object)”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kuˈintas/
- Hyphenation: ku‧win‧tas
Noun
kuwintas (Badlit spelling ᜃᜓᜏᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜐ᜔)
- necklace
Tagalog
Etymology
Either of the following:
- From Proto-Philippine *kulintas (“necklace”) with elision of /l/. Compare Pangasinan kulintas / kolindas, Sambali kolintah, Abenlen Ayta kolinta, Asi kulintas, Agutaynen kolintat, Bikol Central kulintas, Aklanon kulentas, and Cebuano kulintas, and Hiligaynon kolintas. Possibly coincidental and conflated with Spanish cuentas.
- Early borrowing from Spanish cuentas (“beads”), plural of cuenta (“bead (small spherical object)”). However, expected word would be *kuntas if borrowed early but possibly an exception. Compare Ilocano kuentas, Bikol Central kuwentas, Cebuano kuwintas, and Waray-Waray kwentas.
Pronunciation
Noun
kuwintás (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜏᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜐ᜔)
- necklace
- Synonyms: gargantilya, pamigti, binaysok, balagat, binigsa
- rosary
- Synonyms: rosaryo, kuwintas-dasalan, dasalang-kuwintas
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “kuwintas”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
- “kuwintas”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 328
- 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
- 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 207: “Cuentas) Coventas (pc) C. en que ſe reça”
- page 519: “Reçar) Cuentas (pc) C. por Roſario”
- page 536: “Roſario) Cuentas (pc) C. đ cuentas”
- Zorc, David Paul (1981) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 2, page 107
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*kulintas”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI