Where does “tokhanga” come from?

tokhanga (Cebuano) comes from Cebuano tokhang, from Cebuano tuktok, from Proto-Austronesian *tuktuk — beak.

Ancestry of “tokhanga”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cebuanotokhangto knock on a suspected drug trafficker or drug...
2Cebuanotuktokto knock on something; to strike with the beak
3Proto-Austronesian*tuktukbeak
Every word from Proto-Austronesian *tuktuk →Every word from Cebuano tuktok →Every word from Cebuano tokhang →
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