Replied to Francis Rubio :ad: (@teacherbuknoy@masto.ai) (Mastodon)

I tried doing a quick search on the origins of the word “dagitab”; I was under the impression that this is a newly coined term in Filipino. However, I couldn’t find a source on that, and the more common “koryente” came from the Spanish “corriente”. With this, I guess “dagitab” is the native Tagalog term. (I mean “native” as opposed to “borrowed” or “coined/neologism”).

I think it was coined in โ€œMaugnaying Talasalitaanโ€. Most of the terms coined there never caught on.

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