Binondo

The story

1. Tagalog · derived fromtundok
2. Tagalog · derived frombinundok“formed into a mound or embankment; species of rice grown in fertile irrigated land”
3. Spanish · borrowed fromBinondo
4. English todayBinondo

Borrowed from Spanish Binondo, with the older form Binondoc or Minondoc, as attested in the Velarde map, possibly from Tagalog binundok (“formed into a mound or embankment; species of rice grown in fertile irrigated land”), from bundok (“mountain”) + -in- (“verb infix”), according to Nick Joaquin, or from *ming- + Tagalog tundok, according to Potet.