Where does “walay iba og dili maaslom” come from?

walay iba og dili maaslom (Cebuano) comes from Cebuano walay, from Cebuano wala, from Austronesian *wada, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian wada — to be.

walay iba og dili maaslom (Cebuano): everything ugly, especially regarding a person's appearance, is highly disagreeable; an unattractive person acting arrogantly only highlights their bitter or unpleasant nature

Definitions

  1. everything ugly, especially regarding a person's appearance, is highly disagreeable; an unattractive person acting arrogantly only highlights their bitter or unpleasant nature

Ancestry of “walay iba og dili maaslom”, step by step

walay iba og dili maaslom traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Cebuano walay

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cebuanowalayless, un-, lacking
2Cebuanowalaindicates the nonexistence or absence of something; there is none, no one, nothing
3Austronesian*wada—
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesianwadato be

via Cebuano dili

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

via Cebuano maaslom

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cebuanomaaslomto make sour to the taste; to spoil; to become...
2Cebuanoma-added to verbs and adjectives to form adjectives...
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