雞籠
Chinese
fowl; chicken | basket; cage | ||
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trad. (雞籠/鷄籠) | 雞/鷄 | 籠 | |
simp. (鸡笼) | 鸡 | 笼 |
Pronunciation
Etymology 2
Likely from Ketangalan ke- (“locative prefix; domain marker”), cognate to Tagalog ka- -an (“locative circumfix”), Indonesian ke- -an, Malay ke- -an, with the noun root of the compound replaced with Hokkien 儂/侬 (lâng, “person”).
Pronunciation
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