diko

Tagalog

Alternative forms

dico — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

Etymology

Borrowed from Hokkien 二哥 (jī-ko, “second eldest brother”),^[1]^[2] as recorded in the Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum (1626-1642) "hermano segundo 二哥 xy̌có".^[3] Attested in Vocabulario de la lengua tagala (1860).^[4]

Pronunciation

(Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈdiko/ [ˈd̪iː.xo]
Rhymes: -iko
Syllabification: di‧ko

Noun

diko (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜃᜓ)

term of address for the second eldest brother
Synonym: dikong

Coordinate term: ditse
(Bulacan) term of address for the second eldest male cousin

Derived terms

dikong

Related terms

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^[1], page 187
^ Dictionario Hispánico-Sinicum‎^[2] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish, Hokkien, and Classical Mandarin), kept as Vocabulario Español-Chino con caracteres chinos (TOMO 215) in the University of Santo Tomás Archives, Manila: Dominican Order of Preachers, 1626-1642, page 283/261; 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Fabio Yuchung (李毓中), Chen, Tsung-jen (陳宗仁), José, Regalado Trota, Caño, José Luis Ortigosa, editors, Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series I: Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum‎^[3], Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018, →ISBN
^ Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[4] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier

“diko”, 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 141
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 19

[1] 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

[2] Chu, Richard T. (2012) Chinese and Chinese Mestizos of Manila: Family, Identity, and Culture, 1860s-1930s‎^[1], page 187

[3] Dictionario Hispánico-Sinicum‎^[2] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish, Hokkien, and Classical Mandarin), kept as Vocabulario Español-Chino con caracteres chinos (TOMO 215) in the University of Santo Tomás Archives, Manila: Dominican Order of Preachers, 1626-1642, page 283/261; 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^[3], Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018, →ISBN

[4] Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[4] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier

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