Where does “napulog pito” come from?
napulog 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.
napulog pito (Cebuano): seventeen
Definitions
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Ancestry of “napulog pito”, step by step
napulog pito traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Cebuano pito
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cebuano | pito | seven; 7; a whistle; the sound of a whistle |
| 2 | Spanish | pito | whistle; fife; catcall |
| 3 | Spanish | pico | beak; sharp point; pick, pickaxe |
| 4 | Old Spanish | bico | — |
| 5 | Latin | beccus | beak, bill |
| 6 | Latin | -āceus | aceous; resembling, having the nature of, forming, belonging to |
| 7 | Latin | -āx | ish, -y |
| 8 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 9 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |
via Cebuano napulo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cebuano | napulo | ten; 10 |
| 2 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | puluq | ten |
| 3 | Proto-Austronesian | puluq | ten |
via Cebuano ug
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cebuano | ug | and |