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Where does “baluspraka” come from?

baluspraka (Old Saxon) comes from Old Saxon balu-, from Proto-West Germanic *balwa-.

baluspraka (Old Saxon): evil speech

Definitions

  1. evil speech

Ancestry of “baluspraka”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Saxonbalu-Prefix denoting evil, harm, bad
2Proto-West Germanic*balwa-—
Every word from Proto-West Germanic *balwa- →