Where does “bansohan” come from?
bansohan (Cebuano) comes from Cebuano banso, from English bandsaw, from English band, from German band, from French bande, from French là, from Italian là, from Spanish la — that.
bansohan (Cebuano): a lumbermill
Definitions
- a lumbermill
Ancestry of “bansohan”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cebuano | banso | a bandsaw |
| 2 | English | bandsaw | A powered saw whose blade is a continuous band of... |
| 3 | English | band | A strip of material used for strengthening or... |
| 4 | German | band | past of binden |
| 5 | French | bande | band, strip; stripe; strip |
| 6 | French | là | there; here, present |
| 7 | Italian | là | there |
| 8 | Spanish | la | feminine singular definite article; the |
| 9 | Portuguese | lá | there; used with an adverb phrase to indicate... |
| 10 | German | a | Alternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;... |
| 11 | German | a-Moll | A-minor |
| 12 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 13 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 14 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 15 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 16 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 17 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 18 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |