Where does “kapitoag usa” come from?

kapitoag usa (Cebuano) comes from Cebuano kapitoan, 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.

kapitoag usa (Cebuano): seventy-one

Definitions

  1. seventy-one

Ancestry of “kapitoag usa”, step by step

kapitoag usa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Cebuano kapitoan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cebuanokapitoanseventy
2Cebuanopitoseven; 7; a whistle; the sound of a whistle
3Spanishpitowhistle; fife; catcall
4Spanishpicobeak; sharp point; pick, pickaxe
5Old Spanishbico
6Latinbeccusbeak, bill
7Latin-āceusaceous; resembling, having the nature of, forming, belonging to
8Latin-āxish, -y
9Latin-iumSuffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes...
10Latin-iusforming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter...
11Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
12Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems

via Cebuano usa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cebuanousaone; 1; one unnamed person or thing; any person
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*uʀsadeer
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yós
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