Where does “imbestigador” come from?
imbestigador (Tagalog) comes from Spanish investigador, from Latin investigator, from Latin investigo, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
imbestigador (Tagalog): investigator
Definitions
- investigator
Ancestry of “imbestigador”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | investigador | researching, investigating |
| 2 | Latin | investigator | investigator, researcher; second-person singular... |
| 3 | Latin | investigo | I track or trace out, search into, investigate |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |