Where does “digmaang pandaigdig” come from?
digmaang pandaigdig (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog digmaan, from Latin digma, from Ancient Greek δεῖγμα, from Ancient Greek μά, from Old Italian ma, from Latin magis, from Dutch magisch, from Dutch magie.
digmaang pandaigdig (Tagalog): world war
Definitions
- world war
Ancestry of “digmaang pandaigdig”, step by step
digmaang pandaigdig traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Tagalog digmaan
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | digmaan | war; battle |
| 2 | Latin | digma | A specimen; An ensign on the shields of soldiers |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | δεῖγμα | specimen, sample; pattern |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | μά | by |
| 5 | Old Italian | ma | — |
| 6 | Latin | magis | more; more greatly; better |
| 7 | Dutch | magisch | magical, controlled or determined by supernatural... |
| 8 | Dutch | magie | magic, sorcery occult woo, black or white magic, etc.; hence supernatural occurrences or phenonomena |
| 9 | French | magie | magic; A magical, surprising, fascinating feat;... |
| 10 | Middle French | magie | — |
| 11 | Latin | magīa | magic, sorcery |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | μαγεία | theology of the Magians |
| 13 | Ancient Greek | Μάγος | magician, and derogatorily sorcerer, trickster,... |
| 14 | Old Persian | 𐎶𐎦𐏁 | priest |
| 15 | Proto-Iranian | magúš | — |
via Tagalog pandaigdig
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | pandaigdig | global; worldwide |
| 2 | Tagalog | pan- | Instrumentative case of the noun - a tool or an... |