siyaho
Tagalog edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Hokkien 姐夫 (chiá-hu, “elder sister's husband”), recorded in the Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum (1626-1642) "cuñado, marido de hermana mayor!".[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /siˈaho/, [ˈʃa.ho]
- Rhymes: -aho
- Syllabification: si‧ya‧ho
Noun edit
siyaho (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜌᜑᜓ)
- brother-in-law (husband of an elder sister)
- Hypernym: bayaw
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See also edit
References edit
- ^ Dictionario Hispánico-Sinicum, kept as Vocabulario Español-Chino con caracteres chinos (TOMO 215) in the University of Santo Tomás Archives, Manila: Dominican Order of Preachers, O.P., 1626-1642, page 170/151; republished as Lee, Fabio Yuchung (李毓中), Chen, Tsung-jen (陳宗仁), José, Regalado Trota, Caño, José Luis Ortigosa, editors, Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series I: Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum, Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018, →ISBN
Further reading edit
- “siyaho”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 142
- Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 54