Where does “hiyo” come from?

hiyo (Tagalog) comes from Malay hiu, from Proto-Malayic *hiuʔ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian qihu, from Proto-Austronesian qiSu — shark.

hiyo (Tagalog): a species of small shark

Definitions

  1. a species of small shark

Ancestry of “hiyo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1MalayhiuObsolete form of yu; shark
2Proto-Malayic*hiuʔshark
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesianqihushark
4Proto-AustronesianqiSushark
Every word from Proto-Austronesian qiSu →Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian qihu →Every word from Proto-Malayic *hiuʔ →
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