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Where does “bigat” come from?

bigat (Tagalog) comes from Proto-Philippine bəʀəqat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian bəʀəqat — weight; heaviness; difficult; pregnant.

bigat (Tagalog): weight; graveness; gravity of a situation

Definitions

  1. weight; graveness; gravity of a situation

Ancestry of “bigat”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Philippinebəʀəqat—
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesianbəʀəqatweight; heaviness; difficult; pregnant
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