Where does “katrabaho” come from?
katrabaho (Bikol Central) comes from Bikol Central trabaho, from Spanish trabajo, from Spanish trabajar, from Vulgar Latin tripaliare, from Latin tripalium, from Latin tripālis, from Latin -ium, from Latin -ius — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
Ancestry of “katrabaho”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bikol Central | trabaho | — |
| 2 | Spanish | trabajo | work, job; work |
| 3 | Spanish | trabajar | to work; to work in, work on, to workshop; to... |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | tripaliare | to work; present active infinitive of *tripaliō |
| 5 | Latin | tripalium | torture instrument; a torture instrument |
| 6 | Latin | tripālis | that has, or is prop up by, three stake or pale |
| 7 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 8 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |