tres-siyete

Tagalog

Alternative forms

  • entresyete
  • tresyete

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tres siete. By surface analysis, tres (“three”) +‎ siyete (“seven”). See also Italian tressette. Also possibly a misinterpretation of tresyete, clipping of entresyete, from Spanish entre siete (“between seven”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˌtɾes siˈete/ [ˌt̪ɾɛs ˈʃɛː.t̪ɛ]
    • IPA(key): (no palatal assimilation) /ˌtɾes siˈete/ [ˌt̪ɾɛs ˈsjɛː.t̪ɛ]
  • Rhymes: -ete
  • Syllabification: tres-si‧ye‧te

Noun

tres-siyete (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜇᜒᜐ᜔ᜐᜒᜌᜒᜆᜒ) (card games)

  1. a nonbetting card game played in pairs similar to whist or bridge whose highest cards are the ace, two, and three
    • 1891, Jose Rizal, chapter XXXVII, in Patricio Mariano, transl., El Filibusterismo‎[1]:
      Hindi nangaglalaro ng tres-siete, ni nagtutugtugan ng piano...
      They were not playing tres-siete, nor playing the piano...

See also

  • braskas
  • pekwa
  • politana

Further reading

  • “tres-siyete”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 241
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