Where does “basag-kotse” come from?
basag-kotse (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog kotse, from Spanish coche, from Middle French coche, from German Kutsche, from French couché, from French coucher, from Middle French coucher, from Old French couchier — whale, sea monster; abyss.
basag-kotse (Tagalog): smash and grab theft of a parked car
Definitions
- smash and grab theft of a parked car
Ancestry of “basag-kotse”, step by step
basag-kotse traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Tagalog kotse
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | kotse | car; coach; carriage |
| 2 | Spanish | coche | car; carriage, coach |
| 3 | Middle French | coche | — |
| 4 | German | Kutsche | carriage; coach; A large, old automobile in poor... |
| 5 | French | couché | past participle of coucher; in bed |
| 6 | French | coucher | to lay, to lay down; to put to bed, to put up; to... |
| 7 | Middle French | coucher | to put to bed; setting |
| 8 | Old French | couchier | to go to bed; to have sex; bedtime |
| 9 | Latin | collocō | to place, put, set in order, assign, arrange |
| 10 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 11 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 12 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 16 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 17 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 18 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 19 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |