Where does “tana balang” come from?
tana 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.
tana balang (Makasar): low-lying wet rice fields
Definitions
- low-lying wet rice fields
Ancestry of “tana balang”, step by step
tana 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- | — |