Etymograph

English

KKK

KKK comes from Tagalog KKK.

  1. TagalogmodernKKK
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2015same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. TagalogmodernKKK
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2015same form

Earliest quotation: 2015, Heidi Nast, Pit Bulls, Slavery, and Whiteness in the Mid- to Late-Ninete: “[…] 1919, a time when African American hopes for…”

The story

The Philippine sense is from Tagalog KKK.

Every English word from Tagalog KKK

Today it means

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Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Tagalog KKK / KKK

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