Where does “kilapi” come from?

kilapi (Lingala) comes from Portuguese lápis, from Italian lapis, from Latin lapis, from Proto-Italic *lapets — stone.

kilapi (Lingala): pencil

Definitions

  1. pencil

Ancestry of “kilapi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portugueselápispencil
2Italianlapispencil; sanguine
3Latinlapisa stone; a milestone; a boundary stone
4Proto-Italic*lapetsstone
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