Where does “kawaloag pito” come from?

kawaloag 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.

kawaloag pito (Cebuano): eighty-eight

Definitions

  1. eighty-eight

Ancestry of “kawaloag pito”, step by step

kawaloag 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 kawaloan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cebuanokawaloaneighty
2Cebuanowaloeight; 8
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesianwalueight
4Proto-Austronesianwalueight

via Cebuano ug

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