Where does “bulangan” come from?

bulangan (Hiligaynon) comes from Hiligaynon bulang, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulaŋ — moon.

bulangan (Hiligaynon): cockpit

Definitions

  1. cockpit

Ancestry of “bulangan”, step by step

bulangan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hiligaynon bulang

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hiligaynonbulangcockfight
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*bulaŋmoon

via Hiligaynon an

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hiligaynonan—
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulaŋ →Every word from Hiligaynon bulang →