pussukan
Tausug
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editFrom (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *patiukan (“kind of honeybee”) with sound shift of /tj/ → /t͡ʃ/ → /ss/. Compare Tagalog pukyutan, Cebuano putyukan, Sangil patiukang, Sangir katiupang, Mongondow pasukan, and Central Dusun potiukan.
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