Tagalog edit

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Hokkien 二姊 (jī-ché).

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: dit‧se
  • IPA(key): /diˈt͡ʃe/, [dɪˈt͡ʃɛ]

Noun edit

ditsé (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜆ᜔ᜐᜒ)

  1. appellation for second elder sister
    Synonym: ditseng
    Coordinate term: diko

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Further reading edit

  • ditse”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Chu, Richard T. (2012) Chinese and Chinese Mestizos of Manila: Family, Identity, and Culture, 1860s-1930s[1], page 187
  • Klöter, Henning (2011) The Language of the Sangleys: A Chinese Vernacular in Missionary Sources of the Seventeenth Century, Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, →ISBN, page 143
  • Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980), “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics (PDF), volume B, issue 71, Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 141
  • Douglas, Carstairs (1873), “ché”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy (in Hokkien & English), [With 1923 Supplement after the Appendix by Thomas Barclay, Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd.] edition, London: Trübner & Co., page 30; New Edition (With Chinese Character Glosses) edition, London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 30
  • Douglas, Carstairs (1873), “chí”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy (in Hokkien & English), [With 1923 Supplement after the Appendix by Thomas Barclay, Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd.] edition, London: Trübner & Co., page 38; New Edition (With Chinese Character Glosses) edition, London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 38