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Cebuano
Pronunciation
Noun
puko
- yaws (contagious tropical disease)
- a woven basket with a tapering mouth
Tagalog
Etymology
According to Fr. Domingo de los Santos (1835), from po (respect particle) + ko (“my; mine”) but the glottal stop is left unexplained.
Pronunciation
Particle
pukô (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜃᜓ)
- (dialectal, Laguna, Quezon, emphatic) marks respect toward the person the speaker is addressing: ma'am; sir
- Synonyms: po, (familiar) ho
- (women's speech, obsolete) marks respect toward the person the speaker is addressing
Usage notes
- Old dictionaries indicate that puko was used by women before while po was used by men.
Further reading
- Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 823
- Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 1084.
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte. (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot