Where does “bakunahan” come from?
bakunahan (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog bakuna, from Spanish vacuna, from Spanish -a, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.
bakunahan (Tagalog): place for vaccination
Definitions
- place for vaccination
Ancestry of “bakunahan”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | bakuna | vaccine; vaccination |
| 2 | Spanish | vacuna | vaccine; feminine singular of vacuno |
| 3 | Spanish | -a | -ess used to form feminine singular nouns; used... |
| 4 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -ā | Forms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |