betsin

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English vetsin, a genericized trademark of Tien Chu Ve-Tsin food company and/or its particular Chinese reading in Hokkien 味精 (bī-cheng). The Ve-Tsin (味精) trademark itself comes from Shanghainese 味精 (6vi-cin1), which is ultimately from Japanese 味(み)精(せい) (misei).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈbet͡ʃin/ [ˈbɛː.t͡ʃɪn̪]
    • IPA(key): (no palatal assimilation) /ˈbetsin/ [ˈbɛt̪.sɪn̪]
  • Rhymes: -et͡ʃin, (no palatal assimilation) -etsin
  • Syllabification: bet‧sin

Noun

betsin (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜆ᜔ᜐᜒᜈ᜔) (chemistry)

  1. monosodium glutamate

Further reading

  • “betsin”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 338
  • Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 18
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