Deriving from Latin, it has probably developed over some 2000 years.
Filipino is a Spanish word, and Spanish does not use the digraph ph.
1588 was when the Spanish Armada started.
Count them in a Spanish dictionary
they start
¿Cuándo comenzó?
ice
anora
enere
begin or start
selena started singing spanish in 1980
iniciar el juego
manos