potong

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay potong, from Proto-Malayic *putuŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *putuŋ (“to shorten, cut short or abbreviate”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈpotoŋ/ [ˈpo.t̪ɔŋ]
  • Rhymes: -otoŋ
  • Syllabification: po‧tong

Verb

potong (active memotong, passive dipotong)

  1. to cut; to cut off

Derived terms

Classifier

potong (singular sepotong)

  1. piece, slice (e.g. of cake)

References

  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*putuŋ”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Further reading

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