kuwintas

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cuentas, plural of cuenta (“bead (small spherical object)”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ku‧win‧tas

Noun

kuwintas

1. necklace

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• couentas, couintas, cuentas, cuintas — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• kuintas — obsolete
• kwintas — nonstandard

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

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kuinˈtas/ [kwɪn̪ˈt̪as]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: ku‧win‧tas

Noun

kuwintás (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜏᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜐ᜔)

1. necklace

   Synonyms: gargantilya, pamigti, binaysok, balagat, binigsa

2. rosary

   Synonyms: rosaryo, kuwintas-dasalan, dasalang-kuwintas

Derived terms

• dasalang-kuwintas
• ipanguwintas
• kuwintas-dasalan
• kuwintasan
• kuwintasin
• magkukuwintas
• magkuwintas
• manguwintas

 

See also

• kuwenta

 

Further reading

• “kuwintas” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino‎^[1], Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
• “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^[2] (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^[3], La Noble Villa de Pila
  • page 207: “Cuentas) Coventas (pc) C. [o roſario] 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