Where does “Filippyner” come from?

Filippyner (Afrikaans) comes from Afrikaans er — The name of the Latin-script letter R.

Ancestry of “Filippyner”, step by step

Filippyner traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Afrikaans er

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1AfrikaanserThe name of the Latin-script letter R

via Afrikaans Filippyne

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1AfrikaansFilippyne
Every word from Afrikaans er