Where does “daga” come from?

daga (Hiligaynon) comes from Spanish daga — dagger.

daga (Hiligaynon): dagger, stiletto; clay, clay soil; sacrifice,...

Definitions

  1. dagger, stiletto; clay, clay soil; sacrifice,...

Ancestry of “daga”, step by step

daga traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Spanish daga

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishdagadagger

via Proto-Austronesian daʀəq

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Austronesiandaʀəq
Every word from Spanish daga