Where does “aplaya” come from?
aplaya (Tagalog) comes from Spanish A, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.
aplaya (Tagalog): beach; seashore
Ancestry of “aplaya”, step by step
aplaya traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Spanish A
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Spanish | A | bishop |
| 2 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 3 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 4 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 5 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |
via Spanish playa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Spanish | playa | beach; car park; feminine singular of playo |
| 2 | Latin | plagia | slope, slant; beach; second-person singular... |
| 3 | Latin | plāga | plague, misfortune |