diko
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- dico – obsolete, Abecedario orthography
Etymology
From Hokkien 二哥 (jī-ko, “second eldest brother”)[1][2], as recorded in the Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum (1604) "hermano segundo 二哥 xy̌có".[3] Attested in Vocabulario de la lengua tagala (1860).[4]
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: di‧ko
- IPA(key): /ˈdiko/, [ˈdi.xo]
Noun
diko (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜃᜓ)
- appellation for second eldest brother
- Synonym: dikong
- Coordinate term: ditse
Derived terms
- dikong
See also
References
- 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
- Chu, Richard T. (2012) Chinese and Chinese Mestizos of Manila: Family, Identity, and Culture, 1860s-1930s, page 187
- Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum, volume 1, Manila: University of Santo Tomás Archives, 1604, pages 283/261
- Fr. Juan José de Noceda; Fr. Pedro de Sanlucar (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish & Tagalog), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
Further reading
- “diko”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
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