jueteng

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ultimately Unclear. Borrowed from Spanish jueteng, where the use of [j] represents /h/ is as it is spelled from Spanish orthography during the Spanish Colonial Era in the Philippines. Originally derived from Hokkien [Term?],[1] either:[2]

  • 花 (hoe, “flower”) + 當 (tǹg, “pawn; bet”) according to Manuel (1948).[3]
  • 花 (hoe, “flower”) + 檔 (tòng, “space”) according to Chan-Yap (1977) while transcribing the latter as ⟨“tn”⟩,[4] though in Chan-Yap (1980), she transcribed the latter instead as ⟨“tŋ̣̆”⟩ (POJ: tǹg) with a different character, 擋 (tòng),[5] but Chinese Filipino publications such as the World News use the simplified form of the same initial term she pointed to, “花档” (花檔), to refer to the game.[6][7] According to (Wang, 1982), 擋 used to be written as 當.

Compare Hokkien 迴轉, 會堂, or 花燈.

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: jue‧teng
  • (Philippine) IPA(key): /hʊɛˈtɛŋ/

Noun

jueteng (uncountable)

  1. (Philippines) An illegal numbers game similar to lotto; illegal lottery using a tambiolo

References
  1. Ugat ng Huweteng ~ Sawikaan 2005: mga salita ng taon [Root of Jueteng ~ Sawikaan 2005: words of the year]‎ (in Tagalog), UP Press, 2005, retrieved 2021-12-01
  2. Zorc, David Paul (1982) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 3‎, page 172
  3. Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language‎, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 27
  4. Chan-Yap, Gloria (1977), “Hokkien Chinese loanwords in Tagalog”, in Casilda Edrial-Luzares & Austin Hale, editors, Studies in Philippine Linguistics‎ (PDF), volume 1, issue 1, Ateneo de Manila University, page 46
  5. 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 145
  6. 杜特尔特：联邦制将解决经济低迷 [Duterte: Federalism will solve the economic downturn]‎ (in zh-CN), Planetary Data Service Corporation [星球数据服务有限公司], 2012-12-26, archived from the original on 2020-06-30, retrieved 30 November 2021
  7. 菲律宾总统首次承认接受老友700万贿金 [Philippine president admits accepting bribes of ₱7 million]‎, 2000-11-10, retrieved 2020-06-28
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