Where does “bandila” come from?
bandila (Tagalog) comes from Spanish bandera, from Spanish banda, from French bande, from French là, from Italian là, from Spanish la, from Portuguese lá, from German a.
bandila (Tagalog): flag; banner
Ancestry of “bandila”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Spanish | bandera | flag; banner |
| 2 | Spanish | banda | band; gang, band, group; band, sash |
| 3 | French | bande | band, strip; stripe; strip |
| 4 | French | là | there; here, present |
| 5 | Italian | là | there |
| 6 | Spanish | la | the; accusative of ella, ello , and usted ; her,... |
| 7 | Portuguese | lá | there; used with an adverb phrase to indicate... |
| 8 | German | a | Alternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;... |
| 9 | German | a-Moll | A-minor |
| 10 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 11 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 12 | Middle French | a | to; towards; third-person singular present... |
| 13 | Old French | a | to; towards; belonging to |
| 14 | Latin | A | — |
| 15 | Etruscan | 𐌀 | — |
| 16 | Ancient Greek | ᾱ̔ | — |