Where does “balik-asa” come from?
balik-asa (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog asa, from Sanskrit आशा, from Sanskrit आ॒शस्, from Sanskrit आ-, from Sanskrit आ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HáH.
balik-asa (Tagalog): renewal of hope
Ancestry of “balik-asa”, step by step
balik-asa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Tagalog asa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | asa | act of hoping |
| 2 | Sanskrit | आशा | hope, expectation; desire, wish, prospect; a... |
| 3 | Sanskrit | आ॒शस् | — |
| 4 | Sanskrit | आ- | up, upon, on |
| 5 | Sanskrit | आ | separated form of आ-; With senses determined by... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | *HáH | — |
via Tagalog balik
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | balik | the act of returning; the act of bringing back... |
| 2 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | *balik | to return; to repeat |