tres-siyete

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• entresyete
• tresyete

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tres siete. By surface analysis, tres (“three”) +‎ siyete (“seven”). See also Italian tressette. Also possibly a misinterpretation of tresyete, clipping of entresyete, from Spanish entre siete (“between seven”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˌtɾes siˈete/ [ˌt̪ɾɛs ˈʃɛː.t̪ɛ]
  • IPA^(key): (no yod coalescence) /ˌtɾes siˈete/ [ˌt̪ɾɛs ˈsjɛː.t̪ɛ]
• Rhymes: -ete
• Syllabification: tres-si‧ye‧te

Noun

tres-siyete (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜇᜒᜐ᜔ᜐᜒᜌᜒᜆᜒ) (card games)

1. a nonbetting card game played in pairs similar to whist or bridge whose highest cards are the ace, two, and three
   • 1891, Jose Rizal, chapter XXXVII, in Patricio Mariano, transl., El Filibusterismo‎^[1]:

     Hindi nangaglalaro ng tres-siete, ni nagtutugtugan ng piano...

     They were not playing tres-siete, nor playing the piano...

See also

• braskas
• pekwa
• politana

Further reading

• “tres-siyete”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 241