Where does “kitiʼ balang” come from?
kitiʼ balang (Makasar) comes from Wiradhuri balang, from Tagalog bala, from Spanish bala, from French balle, from Middle French balle, from Italian balla, from Old French balle, from Medieval Latin balla.
kitiʼ balang (Makasar): wild duck; whistling duck bird of the genus
Definitions
- wild duck; whistling duck bird of the genus
Ancestry of “kitiʼ balang”, step by step
kitiʼ balang traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Wiradhuri balang
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wiradhuri | balang | head |
| 2 | Tagalog | bala | bullet |
| 3 | Spanish | bala | bullet |
| 4 | French | balle | (small) ball |
| 5 | Middle French | balle | ball; bundle |
| 6 | Italian | balla | large bundle, torsello, bale, reap; falsehood,... |
| 7 | Old French | balle | — |
| 8 | Medieval Latin | balla | — |
| 9 | Frankish | balla | — |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | balluz | round object, ball; ball of the hand, foot, etc |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |
via Makasar kitiʼ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Makasar | kitiʼ | duck bird of the family |