Where does “alarma” come from?
alarma (Tagalog) comes from Spanish alarma, from Italian allarme, from French alarme, from Italian all'arme, from Latin arma, from Late Latin armistitium, from Latin sistere, from Proto-Indo-European stísteh₂ti — to stand.
alarma (Tagalog): alarm a mechanical device for rousing attention
Definitions
- alarm a mechanical device for rousing attention
Ancestry of “alarma”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | alarma | alarm |
| 2 | Italian | allarme | alarm; alert |
| 3 | French | alarme | alarm |
| 4 | Italian | all'arme | a command to take up arms and be ready to fight: to arms! |
| 5 | Latin | arma | defensive arms, armor/armour, shields, weapons of... |
| 6 | Late Latin | armistitium | — |
| 7 | Latin | sistere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | stísteh₂ti | to be standing up, to be getting up |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | steh₂- | to stand |