English
gutta-percha
Gutta-percha comes from Malay getah perca ‘gutta-percha (a latex)’.
- Malaymoderngetah perca‘gutta-percha (a latex)’
- Englishearliest quotation 1855gutta-percha
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Malaymoderngetah perca‘gutta-percha (a latex)’
- Englishearliest quotation 1855gutta-percha
Earliest quotation: 1855, William Somerville Orr, Orr's Circle of the Sciences: “Resin, pitch, sealing-wax, caoutchouc, sulphur, gutta-percha, and generally all…”
Every English word from Malay getah perca
Today it means
noun An inelastic natural latex, produced from the sap of several tropical trees of the genera Palaquium and Payena.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Malay getah perca / gutta-percha