Where does “bawal” come from?

bawal (Malay) comes from English voile, from French voile, from Old French voile, from Vulgar Latin vela, from Latin vēlum, from Proto-Italic *wekslom.

bawal (Malay): pomfret (a kind of fish)

Definitions

  1. pomfret (a kind of fish)

Ancestry of “bawal”, step by step

bawal traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English voile

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishvoileA light, translucent cotton fabric used for...
2Frenchvoileveil; sail; sailing
3Old Frenchvoilesail
4Vulgar Latinvelasynonym of īriō; nominative/accusative/vocative...
5Latinvēluma cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning
6Proto-Italic*wekslom—

via Javanese ꦧꦮꦭ꧀

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Javaneseꦧꦮꦭ꧀—
2Old Javanesebawal—

Words derived from “bawal”

Every word from Proto-Italic *wekslom →