Where does “agham-wika” come from?
agham-wika (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog agham, from Sanskrit आगम, from Sanskrit आ-, from Sanskrit आ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HáH.
agham-wika (Tagalog): linguistics
Ancestry of “agham-wika”, step by step
agham-wika traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Tagalog agham
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | agham | science |
| 2 | Sanskrit | आगम | something handed down through tradition; theory,... |
| 3 | Sanskrit | आ- | up, upon, on |
| 4 | Sanskrit | आ | separated form of आ-; With senses determined by... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | *HáH | — |
via Tagalog wika
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | wika | language; utterance; to express verbally; to... |
| 2 | Sanskrit | वाक्य | speech, saying, assertion, statement, command,... |
| 3 | Sanskrit | वच् | to speak, utter, say |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | wekʷ- | to speak, to sound out |