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Where does “polis dunggab” come from?

polis dunggab (Cebuano) comes from Cebuano polis, from English police, from Middle French police, from Latin polītīa, from Ancient Greek πολιτεία, from Ancient Greek πολῑ́της, from Ancient Greek -της, from Proto-Hellenic -tāts — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.

polis dunggab (Cebuano): a variation of hide and seek, where the it finds...

Definitions

  1. a variation of hide and seek, where the it finds...

Ancestry of “polis dunggab”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1CebuanopolisA police officer; a cop; A civil force granted...
2EnglishpoliceA civil force granted the legal authority for law...
3Middle Frenchpolicegovernance; management
4Latinpolītīa—
5Ancient Greekπολιτείαthe relation in which a citizen stands to the...
6Ancient Greekπολῑ́τηςcitizen
7Ancient Greek-τηςForms nouns representing a state of being; Added...
8Proto-Hellenic-tāts—
9Proto-Indo-European-teh₂tsUsed to form nouns representing state of being
10Proto-Indo-European-teh₂Used to form nouns representing state of being
11Proto-Indo-European-tósCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
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