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Macanese
Hómi usâ tagalám.
Etymology
Apparently from obsolete dialectal Portuguesetagalhão, possibly related to tagalho(“portion”). Further etymology uncertain.
Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “tagalhão, tagalhã”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 539
