Where does “insentibo” come from?
insentibo (Tagalog) comes from Spanish incentivo, from Latin incentivus, from Latin incinō, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
insentibo (Tagalog): incentive
Definitions
- incentive
Ancestry of “insentibo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | incentivo | incentive, stimulus |
| 2 | Latin | incentivus | that strikes up, sets the tune; tibia, the treble... |
| 3 | Latin | incinō | to blow or sound, to sing |
| 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 |