Where does “bisa” come from?
bisa (Tagalog) comes from Kapampangan bisa, from Spanish visa, from French visa, from Latin visa, from Latin visum, from Latin vīsō, from Latin videō, from Proto-Italic widēō — to see.
bisa (Tagalog): efficacy; potency
Definitions
- efficacy; potency
Ancestry of “bisa”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kapampangan | bisa | want; like; crave; fond |
| 2 | Spanish | visa | visa |
| 3 | French | visa | a mark or stamp attesting to the performance of... |
| 4 | Latin | visa | nominative plural of vīsum; accusative plural of... |
| 5 | Latin | visum | vision, mental image; nominative neuter singular... |
| 6 | Latin | vīsō | to look at, look into, stare at, view |
| 7 | Latin | videō | to see, perceive; look (at) |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | widēō | see |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | weyd- | to see |