The story
- Spanish · derived frombuche“gulp a mouthful”
- Hokkien · derived from麻糍
- Tagalog · borrowed frombutsi
- English todaybuchi
From Tagalog butsi / butse, possibly from Hokkien 麻糍 (môa-chî) or a similar cognate, or Spanish buche (“gulp a mouthful”). Compare Cebuano butsi (“Jian dui”), Tagalog matse (“Mache”), Cebuano masi (“Masi”), Kapampangan motsi (“Moche”).
Words from the same roots
Hokkien麻糍 all →
maci
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.