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Tagalog
Etymology
Possibly from tingga (“lead”) + Malay putih (“white”), literally “white lead”.
Pronunciation
Noun
tinggaputi (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜅ᜔ᜄᜉᜓᜆᜒ) (obsolete)
- tin
- Synonyms: tinggang-puti, lata
See also
Further reading
- Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 1298.
- 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