gunting

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

gunting

1. scissors

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

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

guntíng

1. scissors

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

gunting

1. scissors

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

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

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

gúnting

1. scissors
2. haircut

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

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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡuntiŋ/ [ˈɡun̪.t̪ɪŋ]

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• Rhymes: -untiŋ
• Syllabification: gun‧ting

gunting (plural gunting-gunting)

1. scissors (tool used for cutting)

gunting

1. to cut by scissors

• “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]

gunting

1. romanization of ꦒꦸꦤ꧀ꦠꦶꦁ

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

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

gunting

1. scissors

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

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

gunting

1. scissors

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

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."^[1]

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

gunting (Jawi spelling ݢونتيڠ, plural gunting-gunting)

1. scissors (tool used for cutting)

• → Mansaka: gonting
• → Maranao: gonting

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

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

gunting

1. scissor

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

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

gunting (Sundanese script ᮌᮥᮔ᮪ᮒᮤᮀ)

1. scissors

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

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, Tausug gunting, and Javanese ꦒꦸꦤ꧀ꦠꦶꦁ (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.

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

guntíng (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜈ᜔ᜆᜒᜅ᜔)

1. scissors

   Synonym: panggupit

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

   Synonym: paggupit

• “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

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

gunting

1. scissors

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

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

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

guntíng

1. scissors

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