Where does “Baldonado” come from?
Baldonado (Tagalog) comes from Spanish Maldonado, from Spanish mal, from Latin male, from Latin malus, from Ancient Greek μηλέα, from Ancient Greek μῆλον, from Proto-Indo-European (s)meh₁l- — small animal”; small animal.
Ancestry of “Baldonado”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | Maldonado | — |
| 2 | Spanish | mal | Apocopic form of malo bad; evil; amiss, awry,... |
| 3 | Latin | male | badly; wrongly; cruelly, wickedly |
| 4 | Latin | malus | unpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad;... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | μηλέα | apple tree |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | μῆλον | apple; any fruit from a tree; a woman's breast |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)meh₁l- | small animal”; small animal |