gunting

Aklanon

Etymology

Likely from Malay gunting, ultimately likely a loan from some non-Austronesian source, such as Chinese [Term?], according to Blust (2010-2020).

Noun

gunting

1. scissors

Further reading

• Robert Blust, Stephen Trussel (2010-) Austronesian Comparative Dictionary‎^[1]

Asi

Etymology

Likely from Malay gunting, ultimately likely a loan from some non-Austronesian source, such as Chinese [Term?], according to Blust (2010-2020).

Noun

guntíng

1. scissors

Further reading

• Robert Blust, Stephen Trussel (2010-) Austronesian Comparative Dictionary‎^[2]

Bikol Central

Mga gunting

Etymology

Likely borrowed from Malay gunting, ultimately likely a loan from some non-Austronesian source, such as Chinese [Term?], according to Blust (2010-2020).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡunˈtiŋ/ [ɡun̪ˈtiŋ]
• Hyphenation: gun‧ting

Noun

guntíng (Basahan spelling ᜄᜓᜈ᜔ᜆᜒᜅ᜔)

1. scissors; shears
2. a cut; a snip (with a pair of scissors)

   Synonym: gupit

3. (Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon) a haircut

   Synonyms: bulog, tusar, gupit

Derived terms

• guntingan
• guntingon
• maggunting
• pagunting
• paragunting

 

Further reading

• Robert Blust, Stephen Trussel (2010-) Austronesian Comparative Dictionary‎^[3]

Cebuano

Etymology

Likely from Malay gunting, ultimately likely a loan from some non-Austronesian source, such as Chinese [Term?], according to Blust (2010-2020).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gun‧ting
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuntiŋ/ [ˈɡun̪.t̪ɪŋ]

Noun

gúnting (Badlit spelling ᜄᜓᜈ᜔ᜆᜒᜅ᜔)

1. scissors
2. a cut with a pair of scissors
3. (rock paper scissors) a hand with the index and middle fingers open (a handshape resembling scissors), that beats paper and loses to rock

Derived terms

• ginunting
• guntingon
• maggunting

 

Further reading

• Robert Blust, Stephen Trussel (2010-) Austronesian Comparative Dictionary‎^[4]

Higaonon

Etymology

Likely from Malay gunting, ultimately likely a loan from some non-Austronesian source, such as Chinese [Term?], according to Blust (2010-2020).

Noun

gunting

1. scissors

Further reading

• Robert Blust, Stephen Trussel (2010-) Austronesian Comparative Dictionary‎^[5]

Hiligaynon

Etymology

Likely from Malay gunting, ultimately likely a loan from some non-Austronesian source, such as Chinese [Term?], according to Blust (2010-2020).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gun‧ting
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuntiŋ/ [ˈɡun.tiŋ]

Noun

gúnting

1. scissors
2. haircut

Derived terms

• guntingon
• maggunting

 

Further reading

• Robert Blust, Stephen Trussel (2010-) Austronesian Comparative Dictionary‎^[6]

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay gunting, ultimately likely a loan from some non-Austronesian source, such as Chinese [Term?], according to Blust (2010-2020).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡʊntɪŋ]

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• Hyphenation: gun‧ting

Noun

gunting (plural gunting-gunting, first-person possessive guntingku, second-person possessive guntingmu, third-person possessive guntingnya)

1. scissors (tool used for cutting)

Derived terms

• bergunting
• guntingan
• menggunting
• penggunting
• pengguntingan

 

• gunting behel
• gunting benang
• gunting bergerigi
• gunting bias
• gunting karcis
• gunting kuku
• gunting kulit jangat
• gunting mesin
• gunting paras
• gunting serong
• gunting ujung tumpul

 

Further reading

• “gunting” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
• Robert Blust, Stephen Trussel (2010-) Austronesian Comparative Dictionary‎^[7]

Javanese

Romanization

gunting

1. Romanization of ꦒꦸꦤ꧀ꦠꦶꦁ

Kapampangan

Etymology

Likely from Malay gunting, ultimately likely a loan from some non-Austronesian source, such as Chinese, according to Blust (2010-2020).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʊnˈtiŋ/ [ɡʊnˈtiŋ]
• Hyphenation: gun‧ting

Noun

gunting

1. scissors

Further reading

• Robert Blust, Stephen Trussel (2010-) Austronesian Comparative Dictionary‎^[8]

Maguindanao

Etymology

Likely from Malay gunting, ultimately likely a loan from some non-Austronesian source, such as Chinese [Term?], according to Blust (2010-2020).

Noun

gunting

1. scissors

Further reading

• Robert Blust, Stephen Trussel (2010-) Austronesian Comparative Dictionary‎^[9]

Malay

Etymology

Early to Mid Tang dynasty (618 AD – 800 AD) silver scissors from medieval China, as postulated by Blust (2010-)

Blust (2010-2020) posits that, "The history of this word is still obscure. It is almost certainly a loan from some non-Austronesian source, and its distribution in most languages, including all those of the Philippines and eastern Indonesia, probably is a product of borrowing from Malay. However, it is also found in Old Javanese texts that are centuries old, and its application to terms in carpentry (Bikol) and house construction (Asilulu) raises questions about a possible earlier meaning that was later transferred to scissors once these were introduced.

Despite the improbability of it being native, Dempwolff (1938) posited ‘Uraustronesisch’(Proto-Austronesian) *guntiŋ ‘scissors’, and Mills (1975) posited Proto-South Sulawesi *gun(tc)iŋ ‘shears; to cut’. (Blust posits that) The most likely source of this word, which shows irregular sound correspondences in several languages, is some southern form of Chinese, but this is yet to be confirmed. The use of scissors presumably spread widely within a short time because they offered a far more convenient means of cutting hair than was previously possible with the use of single straight blades, as with knives."

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /ɡunteŋ/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /ɡuntɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -untiŋ, -tiŋ, -iŋ
• Hyphenation: gun‧ting

Noun

gunting (Jawi spelling ݢونتيڠ, plural gunting-gunting, informal 1st possessive guntingku, 2nd possessive guntingmu, 3rd possessive guntingnya)

1. scissors (tool used for cutting)

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• guntingan (“clipping”) [resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (-an)
• penggunting [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
• menggunting (“to cut with scissors”) [agent focus] (meN-)
• mengguntingkan (“to cut something with scissors so as to create something”) [agent focus + causative benefactive] (meN- + -kan)
• bergunting (“to have your hair cut, cut with scissors”) [stative / habitual] (beR-)

Irregular affixed derivations, other derivations and compound words:

• gunting babi
• gunting pokok
• gunting tiket
• mata gunting
• tukang gunting

Descendants

• Maranao: gonting
• Mansaka: gonting

Further reading

• “gunting” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Matigsalug Manobo

Etymology

Likely from Malay gunting, ultimately likely a loan from some non-Austronesian source, such as Chinese [Term?], according to Blust (2010-2020).

Noun

gunting

1. scissor

Further reading

• Robert Blust, Stephen Trussel (2010-) Austronesian Comparative Dictionary‎^[10]

Sundanese

Etymology

Likely from Malay gunting, ultimately likely a loan from some non-Austronesian source, such as Chinese [Term?], according to Blust (2010-2020).

Romanization

gunting

1. Romanization of ᮌᮥᮔ᮪ᮒᮤᮀ

Further reading

• Robert Blust, Stephen Trussel (2010-) Austronesian Comparative Dictionary‎^[11]

Tagalog

an assortment of scissors

Etymology

Early to Mid Tang dynasty (618 AD – 800 AD) silver scissors from medieval China, as postulated by Blust (2010-) and Manuel (1948)

Likely from Malay gunting, ultimately likely a loan from some non-Austronesian source, such as Chinese, according to Blust (2010–). Compare Bikol Central gunting, Cebuano gunting, Hiligaynon gunting, Laboya gutti, and Mansaka gonting and Tausug gunting.

Manuel (1948) also wondered about gunting if it is from Chinese or originally traces back to Proto-Austronesian, which Dr. Cecilio Lopez stoutly affirmed from Dempwolff's findings, although problems arose as the word is not found in the languages of the Igorot groups, which the only tenable conclusion was that gunting is not originally from Proto-Austronesian but instead from “Southeastern Chinese” (see Min Chinese languages, including Hokkien) which had a term for scissors from which most probably the original term was derived from.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɡunˈtiŋ/ [ɡʊn̪ˈt̪iŋ]
• Rhymes: -iŋ
• Syllabification: gun‧ting

Noun

guntíng (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜈ᜔ᜆᜒᜅ᜔)

1. scissors

   Synonym: panggupit

2. shears; big scissors
3. cutting with scissors or shears

   Synonym: paggupit

Derived terms

• gugunting
• guntingin
• paggunting

 

See also

• gupit
• kalakati
• pasak

 

Further reading

• “gunting”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) loan “scissors”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics‎^[12], Manila: Filipiniana Publications, pages 70-75

Tboli

Etymology

Likely from Malay gunting, ultimately likely a loan from some non-Austronesian source, such as Chinese [Term?], according to Blust (2010-2020).

Noun

gunting

1. scissors

Further reading

• Robert Blust, Stephen Trussel (2010-) Austronesian Comparative Dictionary‎^[13]

Waray-Waray

Etymology

Likely from Malay gunting, ultimately likely a loan from some non-Austronesian source, such as Chinese [Term?], according to Blust (2010-2020).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡunˈtiŋ/, [ɡunˈtiŋ]
• Hyphenation: gun‧ting

Noun

guntíng

1. scissors

Further reading

• Robert Blust, Stephen Trussel (2010-) Austronesian Comparative Dictionary‎^[14]