betsin
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Tagalog[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English vetsin, a genericized trademark of Tien Chu Ve-Tsin food company and/or its particular Chinese reading in Hokkien 味精 (bī-cheng). The Ve-Tsin (味精) trademark itself comes from Shanghainese 味精 (6vi-cin1), which is ultimately from Japanese 味精 (misei).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈbet͡ʃin/ [ˈbɛ.t͡ʃɪn]
- Rhymes: -et͡ʃin
- Syllabification: bet‧sin
Noun[edit]
betsin (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜆ᜔ᜐᜒᜈ᜔) (chemistry)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “betsin”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 338
- Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 18
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