Where does “bahat” come from?

bahat (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian bəʀəqat — weight; heaviness; difficult; pregnant.

bahat (Serbo-Croatian): haughty, arrogant, presumptuous

Definitions

  1. haughty, arrogant, presumptuous

Ancestry of “bahat”, step by step

bahat traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Malayo-Polynesian bəʀəqat

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Malayo-Polynesianbəʀəqatweight; heaviness; difficult; pregnant

via Proto-Slavic bah

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Slavicbah
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian bəʀəqat
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