Where does “elib” come from?
elib (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog bilib, from English believe, from Middle English beleven, from Old English belīefan, from Old English be-, from Old English hrōpan, from Proto-West Germanic hrōpan, from Proto-Germanic hrōpaną — army.
elib (Tagalog): confident or certain about something
Definitions
- confident or certain about something
Ancestry of “elib”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | bilib | confident or certain about something |
| 2 | English | believe | To accept as true, particularly without absolute... |
| 3 | Middle English | beleven | to leave behind |
| 4 | Old English | belīefan | to believe |
| 5 | Old English | be- | a productive prefix usually used to form verbs... |
| 6 | Old English | hrōpan | to shout, proclaim; cry out, scream, howl; to cry... |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | hrōpan | to cry out, to call, to shout |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | hrōpaną | to cry out, call, shout |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |