English
Huk
Huk comes from Tagalog Hapon ‘People's Army Against the Japanese’, and goes back to Spanish Japón.
- Spanishc. 1500–presentJapón
- TagalogmodernHapon‘People's Army Against the Japanese’
- Tagalog, derivedmodernHukbalahap
- Englishearliest quotation 1963Huk
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Spanishc. 1500–presentJapón
- TagalogmodernHapon‘People's Army Against the Japanese’
- Tagalog, derivedmodernHukbalahap
- Englishearliest quotation 1963Huk
Earliest quotation: 1963, William J. Pomeroy, The Forest: “But sooner or later, there will be decisions to…”
The story
The initial word itself where the abbreviation comes from is from Tagalog hukbo (‘army’), which itself is derived from Hokkien 服務 /服务 (ho̍k-bū, “service”).
Every English word from Spanish Japón
Today it means
noun A member of the Hukbalahap.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Spanish Japón / Huk