The story
- Hokkien · borrowed from頭家 /头家“boss”
- English todaytaoke
Borrowed from Hokkien 頭家 /头家 (thâu-ke, “boss”). Doublet of towkay. Compare Tagalog taoke, Tausug tawki, Malay tauke, Indonesian tauke, Burmese ထောင်ကဲ (htaungkai:), Puyuma tawki, Rukai tawki, Sakizaya tawki.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.