Where does “santos ray dili manglibak” come from?

santos ray dili manglibak (Cebuano) comes from Cebuano dili, from Proto-Austronesian di.

santos ray dili manglibak (Cebuano): Everyone gossips; the nature of people is such that only a saint is exempt from backbiting

Definitions

  1. Everyone gossips; the nature of people is such that only a saint is exempt from backbiting

Ancestry of “santos ray dili manglibak”, step by step

santos ray dili manglibak traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Cebuano dili

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cebuanodilino; not; no
2Proto-Austronesiandi—

via Cebuano ra

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cebuanoraafter the first word of a sentence only, just, nothing else

via Cebuano santo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cebuanosanto—
Every word from Proto-Austronesian di →Every word from Cebuano dili →