Where does “balngawsukat” come from?

balngawsukat (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog sukat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sukat.

balngawsukat (Tagalog): spectrometer

Definitions

  1. spectrometer

Ancestry of “balngawsukat”, step by step

balngawsukat traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog sukat

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogsukatmeasurement; measure; dimension
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*sukat

via Tagalog balangaw

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogbalangawrainbow
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sukat
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