Etymology

pancit canton

Today it means: A Filipino dish of stir-fried egg noodles with meat, vegetables, soy sauce and other seasonings. Full definition →

Philippine Spanish pancit cantón ← Spanish Cantón ← Mandarin 廣東 /广东
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The story

  1. Portuguese · derived fromCantão
  2. Mandarin · derived from廣東 /广东
  3. Spanish · derived fromCantón
  4. Philippine Spanish · derived frompancit
  5. Philippine Spanish · borrowed frompancit cantón
  6. English todaypancit canton

From Philippine Spanish pancit cantón, where Philippine Spanish pancit is from Hokkien, while Spanish Cantón is ultimately from Mandarin 廣東 /广东 (Guǎngdōng), possibly via Portuguese Cantão.

Words from the same roots

Philippine Spanishpancit all →

pancit

Mandarin廣東 all →

cantonGuangdong

PortugueseCantão all →

canton

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.