Where does “ba” come from?

ba (Tagalog) comes from Proto-Austronesian *ba.

ba (Tagalog): marks a sentence as interrogative; used in...

Definitions

  1. marks a sentence as interrogative; used in...

Ancestry of “ba”, step by step

ba traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Austronesian *ba

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Austronesian*ba—

via Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ba

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*ba—

Words derived from “ba”

Every word from Proto-Austronesian *ba →