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List of English Words of Philippine Origin Wikipedia

This document lists English words that originate from Philippine languages, including Tagalog and Ilocano. Some examples of words of Philippine origin in English are abacá, adobo, boondocks, calamondin, capiz, cedula, cooties, datto, ditta, halo-halo, lauan, machin, panguingue, salacot, ube, and yo-yo. The document provides the Philippine origins and meanings of these words.

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List of English Words of Philippine Origin Wikipedia

This document lists English words that originate from Philippine languages, including Tagalog and Ilocano. Some examples of words of Philippine origin in English are abacá, adobo, boondocks, calamondin, capiz, cedula, cooties, datto, ditta, halo-halo, lauan, machin, panguingue, salacot, ube, and yo-yo. The document provides the Philippine origins and meanings of these words.

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List of English words of Philippine

origin
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 (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/machin) - a grayish brown
long-tailed macaque (Macaca philippinensis (http://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/name/Mac
aca%20philippinensis)), from matsing meaning monkey or ape
panguingue - a 19th-century gambling card game, from pangginggi
dita - a Philippine tree
salacot (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/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
1. Alberto-Masakayan, Thea (25 June 2016). "Halo-halo, atbp: Filipino words make it to
Oxford Dictionary" (http://news.abs-cbn.com/focus/06/25/15/halo-halo-atbp-filipino-words
-make-it-oxford-dictionary). ABS-CBNnews.com. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
2. "yo–yo" (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/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"

See also
Lists of English words of international origin
Pseudo-anglicism

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