Where does “bakuna” come from?
bakuna (Tagalog) comes from Spanish vacuna, from Spanish -a, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.
bakuna (Tagalog): vaccine; vaccination
Ancestry of “bakuna”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Spanish | vacuna | vaccine; feminine singular of vacuno |
| 2 | Spanish | -a | -ess used to form feminine singular nouns; used... |
| 3 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -ā | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |