Where does “bahague” come from?

bahague (Spanish) comes from Cebuano bahag, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahaʀ — loincloth.

bahague (Spanish): a type of loincloth that was commonly used throughout the Philippines before the arrival of the European colonizers and is currently still in use today by some indigenous tribes of the Philippines

Definitions

  1. a type of loincloth that was commonly used throughout the Philippines before the arrival of the European colonizers and is currently still in use today by some indigenous tribes of the Philippines

Ancestry of “bahague”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cebuanobahaga type of loincloth that was commonly used...
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*bahaʀloincloth
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahaʀ →Every word from Cebuano bahag →