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Tagalog
Etymology
From (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *patiukan (“kind of honeybee”) with metathesis. Compare Pangasinan potiokan, Kapampangan pukiutan / putiukan, Asi pudyukan, Romblomanon putyūkan, Bikol Central putyokan, Cebuano putyukan, Western Bukidnon Manobo petiyukan, Tausug pussukan, Sangil patiukang, Sangir katiupang, Mongondow pasukan, and Central Dusun potiukan.
Pronunciation
Noun
pukyutan (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜃ᜔ᜌᜓᜆᜈ᜔)
- honey bee
- Synonyms: pukyot, abeha
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Further reading
- “pukyutan” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
- “pukyutan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- 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
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 4: “Abeja) Pucqiotan (pp) que hace buena miel, mang̃a pocyotan, las abejas, polot pocqiotan, miel de abejas”
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*patiukan”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI