ginto
Appearance
Tagalog
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Hokkien, possibly:
- 金底 (kim-tóe, “gold base”) according to Manuel (1948)
- 金條 / 金条 (kim-tiâu, “gold bar”) according to Potet (2016)
- 金豆 (kim-tāu, “piloncitos, pea-sized pieces of gold once used as a currency”) hypothesized by Potet (2016)
See also Hokkien 鍍金 / 镀金 (tō͘-kim, “to gold-plate; to gild”). Cognate with Kapampangan gintu.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ɡinˈtoʔ/ [ɡɪn̪ˈt̪oʔ]
- Rhymes: -oʔ
- Syllabification: gin‧to
Noun
[edit]gintô (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)
- (chemistry) gold
- Synonym: oro
- gold coin
- gold (color/colour)
- Synonym: bulawan
- (colloquial, figurative) money
- (colloquial, figurative) riches; wealth
- Synonym: yaman
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Adjective
[edit]gintô (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)
- made of gold
- golden (color/colour)
- Synonym: bulawan
- (colloquial, figurative) of great value
Further reading
[edit]- “ginto”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 338
- 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, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 20
- 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “金底”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary][1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC, page 330
- 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “金豆”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary][2] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC, page 328
- Barclay, Thomas (1923) “荳 tāu. kim-tāu”, in Supplement to Dictionary of the Amoy Colloquial Language (overall work in Hokkien and English), Shanghai: The Commercial Press, Limited, page 221
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