kuwintas

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cuentas, plural of cuenta (“bead (small spherical object)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuˈintas/ [ˈkwɪn̪.t̪as̪]
• Hyphenation: ku‧win‧tas

Noun

kuwintas (Badlit spelling ᜃᜓᜏᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜐ᜔)

1. necklace

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• couentas, couintas, cuentas, cuintas — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• kuintas — obsolete
• kwintas — superseded, pre-2007

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Philippine *kulintas?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Latin putus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin putō

Latin computāre

Early Modern Spanish contardeverb.

Early Modern Spanish cuenta

Early Modern Spanish cuentasbor.?

Tagalog kuwintas

Either of the following:

• From Proto-Philippine *kulintas (“necklace”) with elision of /l/. Compare Pangasinan kulintas / kolindas, Sambali kolintah, Abenlen Ayta kolinta, Asi kulintas, Agutaynen kolintat, Central Bikol kulintas, Aklanon kulentas, and Cebuano kulintas, and Hiligaynon kolintas. Possibly coincidental and conflated with Spanish cuentas.
• Borrowed from Early Modern Spanish cuentas (“beads”), plural of cuenta (“count; bead (small spherical object)”). However, expected word could be *kuntas if borrowed early but possibly an exception. Compare Ilocano kuentas, Central Bikol kuwentas, Cebuano kuwintas, and Waray-Waray kwentas. Possible doublet of kuwenta.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kuwinˈtas/ [k̠wɪn̪ˈt̪as]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: ku‧win‧tas

Noun

kuwintás (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜏᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜐ᜔)

1. necklace

   Synonyms: gargantilya, pamigti, binaysok, balagat, binigsa

2. rosary

   Synonyms: rosaryo, kuwintas-dasalan, dasalang-kuwintas

Derived terms

• dasalang-kuwintas
• ipanguwintas
• kuwintas-dasalan
• kuwintasan
• kuwintasin
• magkukuwintas
• magkuwintas
• manguwintas

See also

• kuwenta

Further reading

• “kuwintas”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “kuwintas”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Panganiban, José Villa (1973), Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 328
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860), Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves, y coordinado por el P. Juan de Noceda y el P. Pedro de Sanlucar. Ultimamente aumentado y corregido por varios religiosos de la Orden de Agustinos calzados.‎^[1] (overall work in Spanish and Classical Tagalog), Manila: Ramírez y Giraudier.
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte.‎^[2] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen. Juan de Silva, Pila, Laguna: La noble Villa de Pila, por Tomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag.
  • page 207: “Cuentas) Coventas (pc) C. [o roſario] en que ſe reça”
  • page 519: “Reçar) Cuentas (pc) C. por Roſario”
  • page 536: “Roſario) Cuentas (pc) C. đ cuentas”
• Zorc, David Paul (1981), Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 2, page 107
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*kulintas”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI