Where does “gali” come from?
gali (Indonesian) comes from Indonesian anak, from Indonesian perempuan, from Indonesian per- -an, from Indonesian sero, from Indonesian pesero, from Indonesian persero, from Portuguese parceiro, from Old Portuguese parceiro — passed , crossed.
gali (Indonesian): to dig; galley
Definitions
- to dig; galley
Ancestry of “gali”, step by step
gali traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Indonesian anak
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indonesian | anak | child |
| 2 | Indonesian | perempuan | female; woman |
| 3 | Indonesian | per- -an | hood |
| 4 | Indonesian | sero | stock, the capital raised by a company through the issue of shares |
| 5 | Indonesian | pesero | shareholder |
| 6 | Indonesian | persero | — |
| 7 | Portuguese | parceiro | partner, sidekick; fellow |
| 8 | Old Portuguese | parceiro | — |
| 9 | Latin | partiārius | a sharer, partaker |
| 10 | Latin | partiō | to share, part, apportion; divide, distribute |
| 11 | Latin | pars | part, side, piece, share; some; faction |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |
via Malay gali
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Malay | gali | to dig; galley |
| 2 | Malay | kali | Obsolete form of gali; river; times |
| 3 | Javanese | ꦏꦭ | time; season; bird noose or snare |
| 4 | Old Javanese | kali | river |
| 5 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | kali | to dig up; to excavate |
| 6 | Proto-Austronesian | kalih | to dig up; to excavate |
| 7 | Old Javanese | ka- | passive verb-forming prefix |
| 8 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | ka- | marker of past time in temporal expressions |
| 9 | Proto-Austronesian | ka- | inchoative |
via Dutch galei
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | galei | A galley |
| 2 | Middle Dutch | galeye | — |
| 3 | Old French | galee | — |
| 4 | Latin | galea | a helmet; vocative singular of galea; ablative... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | γαλέη | name given to various animals of the Mustelidae... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | glī- | mous |
| 7 | English | glio- | Gliomatous; Glial; Embedded in a gelatinous... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | γλία | glue |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | *gley- | — |