Where does “Amoy” come from?

Amoy (Tagalog) comes from English Amoy, from Chinese Ēe-mûi.

Amoy (Tagalog): the Hokkien language

Definitions

  1. the Hokkien language

Ancestry of “Amoy”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishAmoyThe Amoy dialect of the Hokkien language
2ChineseĒe-mûi—

Words derived from “Amoy”

Every word from Chinese Ēe-mûi →Every word from English Amoy →