Where does “balang-na” come from?
balang-na (Tagalog) comes from Wiradhuri balang, from Tagalog bala, from Spanish bala, from French balle, from Middle French balle, from Italian balla, from Old French balle, from Medieval Latin balla.
balang-na (Tagalog): anything; something
Definitions
- anything; something
Ancestry of “balang-na”, step by step
balang-na traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Wiradhuri balang
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wiradhuri | balang | head |
| 2 | Tagalog | bala | bullet |
| 3 | Spanish | bala | bullet |
| 4 | French | balle | (small) ball |
| 5 | Middle French | balle | ball; bundle |
| 6 | Italian | balla | large bundle, torsello, bale, reap; falsehood,... |
| 7 | Old French | balle | — |
| 8 | Medieval Latin | balla | — |
| 9 | Frankish | balla | — |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | balluz | round object, ball; ball of the hand, foot, etc |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |