The story
- Philippine Spanish · derived fromjueteng
- English todayjueteng
Ultimately derived from Hokkien, via Philippine Spanish jueteng, where the use of ⟨j⟩ represents /h/ as it is spelled from Spanish orthography during the Spanish Colonial Era in the Philippines. See more at Tagalog huweteng.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.