Where does “alta” come from?
alta (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog almusal, from Spanish almorzar, from Spanish almuerzo, from Vulgar Latin admordium, from Latin admordere, from Latin admordeo, from Latin mordeō, from Proto-Italic mordeō — to bite, to sting.
alta (Tagalog): altar
Definitions
- altar
Ancestry of “alta”, step by step
alta traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Tagalog almusal
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | almusal | breakfast |
| 2 | Spanish | almorzar | to eat lunch; to eat for lunch |
| 3 | Spanish | almuerzo | lunch |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | admordium | breakfast |
| 5 | Latin | admordere | present active infinitive of admordeō;... |
| 6 | Latin | admordeo | I bite or gnaw at or into; I get possession of... |
| 7 | Latin | mordeō | to bite (into); nibble, gnaw |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | mordeō | to bite |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)merd- | to bite, to sting |
via Tagalog tanghalian
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | tanghalian | lunch |
| 2 | Tagalog | tanghali | noon, noontime |
| 3 | Malay | tengah hari | noon |
| 4 | Malay | hari | day |
| 5 | Proto-Malayic | ari | day |
| 6 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | waʀi | day |
| 7 | Proto-Austronesian | waʀi | day; sun; to dry |