English
kongsi
Kongsi comes from Hokkien 公司 ‘company’.
- Hokkienmodern公司kong-si‘company’
- Englishearliest quotation 1998kongsi
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Hokkienmodern公司kong-si‘company’
- Englishearliest quotation 1998kongsi
Earliest quotation: 1998, Zawawi Ibrahim: “By 1970, for instance, the state authorities considered these…”
Every English word from Hokkien 公司
Today it means
noun A benevolent organization of popular origin found among overseas Chinese communities for individuals with the same surname.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Hokkien 公司 / kongsi