Where does “ipawalambisa” come from?
ipawalambisa (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog walambisa, from Tagalog bisa, from Kapampangan bisa, from Spanish visa, from French visa, from Latin visa, from Latin visum, from Latin vīsō — to see.
Ancestry of “ipawalambisa”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | walambisa | — |
| 2 | Tagalog | bisa | efficacy; potency |
| 3 | Kapampangan | bisa | want; like; crave; fond |
| 4 | Spanish | visa | visa |
| 5 | French | visa | a mark or stamp attesting to the performance of... |
| 6 | Latin | visa | nominative plural of vīsum; accusative plural of... |
| 7 | Latin | visum | vision, mental image; nominative neuter singular... |
| 8 | Latin | vīsō | to look at, look into, stare at, view |
| 9 | Latin | videō | to see, perceive; look (at) |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | widēō | see |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | weyd- | to see |