https://charles.thyck.top/tags/language/Recent content in Language on Charles AnchetaHugoen-cacancheta.dev@gmail.com (Charles Ancheta)cancheta.dev@gmail.com (Charles Ancheta)Charles Ancheta. MITSat, 11 Jan 2025 00:50:18 -0700https://charles.thyck.top/post/til/beans/Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:50:18 -0700cancheta.dev@gmail.com (Charles Ancheta)https://charles.thyck.top/post/til/beans/<p>Being a Tagalog speaker and a language learner, I&rsquo;ve always been interested in etymology of Tagalog words. The obvious influences are Spanish and English, but there&rsquo;s also a lot from Hokkien and Malay.</p> <p>Today I&rsquo;m going to list out some words that I find interesting:</p> <ul> <li> <p><em>Linggo</em> (Sunday; week) - All the days in Tagalog are directly borrowed from Spanish one to one, except for Sunday (<em>domingo</em>). Apparently it could be from Malay <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/minggu#Malay"><em>minggu</em></a> which came from Portuguese <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/domingo#Portuguese"><em>domingo</em></a>. Of course, both of those could be traced to Latin, and Portuguese and Spanish are pretty close to each other. I just find it interesting that we get to the same word in a pretty roundabout way.</p>