Etymology

Singson

Sing·son
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Today it means: A surname from Hokkien common among Filipinos of Chinese ancestry Full definition →

Cebuano, Ilocano, and Tagalog Singson ← Hokkien 曾孫 /曾孙 ← Spanish Singson
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The story

  1. Spanish · derived fromSingson
  2. Hokkien · derived from曾孫 /曾孙“great-grandson (in a male lineage)”
  3. Cebuano, Ilocano, and Tagalog · borrowed fromSingson
  4. English todaySingson

Borrowed from Cebuano, Ilocano, and Tagalog Singson, possibly from Hokkien 曾孫 /曾孙 (cheng-sun, “great-grandson (in a male lineage)”), via Spanish Singson.

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