List of English words of Philippine origin
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This is a list of English words which originate from any of the Philippine languages:
- abacá - a species of banana native to the Philippines. The plant is of major economical importance, being harvested for its fibre, called manila hemp, from abaka
- adobo - a Philippine dish
- boondocks - a remote, usually brushy rural area, from the Tagalog bundok, which means "mountain" or the word bunduk (Visayan Bukid) meaning "hinterland", i.e., land area inland, away from the shore.
- calamondin - a small evergreen citrus fruit tree, native to the Philippines, and used there for cooking and as a houseplant elsewhere, from kalamunding
- capiz - decoration material, made of mother-of-pearl shells that have the same name
- cedula - a Philippine tax
- cooties - from Tagalog and Austronesian word kuto which literally means "head lice"
- datto - a Philippine tribe
- ditta - a Philippine tree
- halo-halo - a dessert.[1]
- lauan - the light yellow to reddish-brown or brown wood of any of various tropical southeast Asian trees, from lawaan
- machin - a grayish brown long-tailed macaque (Macaca philippinensis), from matsing meaning monkey or ape
- panguingue - a 19th-century gambling card game, from pangginggi
- dita - a Philippine tree
- salacot - broad-brimmed hat woven from strips of cane or from palm leaves, from salakot
- ube - a Philippine yam
- yo-yo - the toy, from Ilocano word yoyo[2]
References
- ^ Alberto-Masakayan, Thea (25 June 2016). "Halo-halo, atbp: Filipino words make it to Oxford Dictionary". ABS-CBNnews.com. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ "yo–yo". Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
Origin and Etymology of yo–yo probably from Ilocano yóyo, or a cognate word in a language of the Philippines, First Known Use: 1915