Where does “aba” come from?

aba (Tagalog) comes from Spanish AVE, from Latin avis, from English avifauna, from Latin fauna — animals.

aba (Tagalog): poor, indigent; humble; ordinary; oppressed,...

Definitions

  1. poor, indigent; humble; ordinary; oppressed,...

Ancestry of “aba”, step by step

aba traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Spanish AVE

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1SpanishAVEAcronym of alta velocidad española
2Latinavisa bird; omen, portent; dative/ablative plural of...
3EnglishavifaunaThe birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting...
4Latinfaunaanimals

via Proto-Malayo-Polynesian aba

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Malayo-Polynesianabafather
2Proto-Austronesianabafather

Words derived from “aba”

Every word from Latin fauna →Every word from Latin avis →Every word from English avifauna →