Where does “ang balos walay sukod” come from?
ang balos walay sukod (Cebuano) comes from Cebuano walay, from Cebuano wala, from Austronesian *wada, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian wada — to be.
ang balos walay sukod (Cebuano): Retaliation or karma knows no bounds; when a debt, injury, or favor is repaid, the volume or intensity of the return can be disproportionately larger than the original act
Definitions
- Retaliation or karma knows no bounds; when a debt, injury, or favor is repaid, the volume or intensity of the return can be disproportionately larger than the original act
Ancestry of “ang balos walay sukod”, step by step
ang balos walay sukod traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Cebuano walay
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cebuano | walay | less, un-, lacking |
| 2 | Cebuano | wala | indicates the nonexistence or absence of something; there is none, no one, nothing |
| 3 | Austronesian | *wada | — |
| 4 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | wada | to be |
via Cebuano ang
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cebuano | ang | direct marker for all nouns other than personal proper nouns |
via Cebuano sukod
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cebuano | sukod | — |