Where does “kap-atag pito” come from?

kap-atag pito (Cebuano) comes from Cebuano pito, from Spanish pito, from Spanish pico, from Old Spanish bico, from Latin beccus, from Latin -āceus, from Latin -āx, from Latin -ium — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.

kap-atag pito (Cebuano): forty-seven

Definitions

  1. forty-seven

Ancestry of “kap-atag pito”, step by step

kap-atag pito traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Cebuano pito

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cebuanopitoseven; 7; a whistle; the sound of a whistle
2Spanishpitowhistle; fife; catcall
3Spanishpicobeak; sharp point; pick, pickaxe
4Old Spanishbico
5Latinbeccusbeak, bill
6Latin-āceusaceous; resembling, having the nature of, forming, belonging to
7Latin-āxish, -y
8Latin-iumSuffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes...
9Latin-iusforming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter...
10Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
11Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems

via Cebuano kap-atan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cebuanokap-atanforty
2Cebuanoupatfour
3Proto-Philippineəpatfour
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesianəpatfour
5Proto-AustronesianSəpatfour

via Cebuano ug

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cebuanougand
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yósEvery word from Latin -iumEvery word from Latin -ius