Gatmaitan
Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Gat + Mait + -an, presumed to be one of the rulers or nobility of an ancient sovereign polity, known in Chinese records as「麻逸」, read in Mandarin 麻逸 (Máyì) and Hokkien 麻逸 (Mâ-i̍t, literary reading) and historically known through the atonal Wade-Giles romanization of Mandarin, “Ma-i”.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ɡatmajˈtan/ [ɡɐt̪.maɪ̯ˈt̪an̪], /ɡatmaiˈtan/ [ɡɐt̪.mɐ.ɪˈt̪an̪]
- Rhymes: -an
- Syllabification: Gat‧mai‧tan, Gat‧ma‧i‧tan
Proper noun
[edit]Gatmaitán (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜆ᜔ᜋᜌ᜔ᜆᜈ᜔)
- a surname from Tagalog, mostly concentrated in Batangas and Oriental Mindoro
Statistics
[edit]- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Gatmaitan is the 952nd most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 9,925 individuals.
See also
[edit]Categories:
- Tagalog compound terms
- Tagalog terms suffixed with -an
- Tagalog 3-syllable words
- Tagalog 4-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/an
- Rhymes:Tagalog/an/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Tagalog/an/4 syllables
- Tagalog terms with mabilis pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog proper nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- Tagalog surnames
- Tagalog surnames from Tagalog