pukyutan

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• pocquiotan, pocyotan, pucqiotan — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

Etymology

From (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *patiukan (“kind of honeybee”) with metathesis. Compare Pangasinan potiokan, Kapampangan pukiutan / putiukan, Asi pudyukan, Romblomanon putyūkan, Bikol Central putyokan, Cebuano putyukan, Western Bukidnon Manobo petiyukan, Tausug pussukan, Sangil patiukang, Sangir katiupang, Mongondow pasukan, and Central Dusun potiukan.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /pukˈjutan/ [pʊkˈjuː.t̪ɐn̪]
• Rhymes: -utan
• Syllabification: puk‧yu‧tan

Noun

pukyutan (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜃ᜔ᜌᜓᜆᜈ᜔)

1. honey bee

   Synonyms: pukyot, abeha

Derived terms

• bahay-pukyutan
• pulot-pukyutan

 

See also

• balibag
• bubuyog
• laywan
• ligwan

 

Further reading

• “pukyutan”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “pukyutan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎^[2] (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[3], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 4: “Abeja) Pucqiotan (pp) que hace buena miel, mang̃a pocyotan, las abejas, polot pocqiotan, miel de abejas”
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*patiukan”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI