Etymology of Yo-Yo

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Hello fellow ANLANG listers,

I hope this is an appropriate topic for this list. I've always wondered which
Philippine language "yo-yo" comes from since it's certainly not Tagalog; or
at least the variety of Tagalog I know!

In any case, I've attached a message below which appeared in a discussion
group I'm on.

Thanks,

--Chris Sundita
http://home.san.rr.com/bikol

A site visitor sent this query about the origin of the term "yo-yo", a
popular toy the origin of which is traced back to Filipinos. I have no doubt
that it is an invention from the Philippines because way back in 1989 or
1990, I read an interesting article from New York Times while I was studying
at Cornell University that traced the history of yo-yo to Filipinos who
migrated to America in the early 1900s and introduced the toy, which became a
hit.

Anyway, here is the query:

I read an article about the invention of yo-yo, and the article stated:

" In 1916, the Scientific American Supplement, in an article called 'Filipino
toys,' called the spinning disks a 'yo-yo.' The term is Tagalog (the main
language of in the Philippines) for 'come-come' or 'come back'."

I was just wondering if this information is correct because I thought that
balik was the Tagalog word for come back."

Thanks for your help

-- Noel m