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

Definitions

  1. vaccine; vaccination

Ancestry of “bakuna”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishvacunavaccine; feminine singular of vacuno
2Spanish-a-ess used to form feminine singular nouns; used...
3Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
4Proto-Italic-āForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
5Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—

Words derived from “bakuna”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →Every word from Latin -a →Every word from Spanish -a →
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