siyaho

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Hokkien 姐夫 (chiá-hu, “elder sister's husband”), recorded in the Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum (1604) "cuñado, marido de hermana mayor!".[1]

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: si‧ya‧ho
  • IPA(key): /siˈaho/, [ˈʃa.ho]

Noun

siyaho (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜌᜑᜓ)

  1. brother-in-law (elder sister's husband)
    Hypernym: bayaw

References
  1. Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum, volume 1, Manila: University of Santo Tomás Archives, 1604, page 170/151

Further reading
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