Where does “Balaan nga Pitlaw” come from?
Balaan nga Pitlaw (Cebuano) comes from Cebuano pitlaw, from Cebuano pito, from Spanish pito, from Spanish pico, from Old Spanish bico, from Latin beccus, from Latin -āceus, from Latin -āx — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
Balaan nga Pitlaw (Cebuano): Holy Week; the week preceding Easter Sunday
Definitions
- Holy Week; the week preceding Easter Sunday
Ancestry of “Balaan nga Pitlaw”, step by step
Balaan nga Pitlaw traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Cebuano pitlaw
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cebuano | pitlaw | A week; a period of seven days beginning with... |
| 2 | Cebuano | pito | seven; 7; a whistle; the sound of a whistle |
| 3 | Spanish | pito | whistle; fife; catcall |
| 4 | Spanish | pico | beak; sharp point; pick, pickaxe |
| 5 | Old Spanish | bico | — |
| 6 | Latin | beccus | beak, bill |
| 7 | Latin | -āceus | aceous; resembling, having the nature of, forming, belonging to |
| 8 | Latin | -āx | ish, -y |
| 9 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 10 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |
via Cebuano nga
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cebuano | nga | Expressing substance, composition; Expressing... |