betsin

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• vetsin
• bitsin

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 yod coalescence) /ˈbetsin/ [ˈbɛt̪.sɪn̪]
• Rhymes: -et͡ʃin, (no yod coalescence) -etsin
• Syllabification: bet‧sin

Noun

betsin (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜆ᜔ᜐᜒᜈ᜔) (chemistry)

1. monosodium glutamate

Related terms

• miso

 

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