Where does “kuwentong-kutsero” come from?
kuwentong-kutsero (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog kutsero, from Spanish cochero, from Spanish coche, from Middle French coche, from German Kutsche, from French couché, from French coucher, from Middle French coucher — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...
kuwentong-kutsero (Tagalog): hearsay; rumor; gossip
Definitions
- hearsay; rumor; gossip
Ancestry of “kuwentong-kutsero”, step by step
kuwentong-kutsero traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Tagalog kutsero
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | kutsero | coachman; driver of a horse-drawn vehicle |
| 2 | Spanish | cochero | coachman |
| 3 | Spanish | coche | car; carriage, coach |
| 4 | Middle French | coche | — |
| 5 | German | Kutsche | carriage; coach; A large, old automobile in poor... |
| 6 | French | couché | past participle of coucher; in bed |
| 7 | French | coucher | to lay, to lay down; to put to bed, to put up; to... |
| 8 | Middle French | coucher | to put to bed; setting |
| 9 | Old French | couchier | to go to bed; to have sex; bedtime |
| 10 | Latin | collocō | to place, put, set in order, assign, arrange |
| 11 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 12 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 13 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 17 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 18 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 19 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 20 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 21 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 22 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 23 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via Tagalog kuwento
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | kuwento | story |
| 2 | Spanish | cuento | story; one million |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | contu(s) | — |
| 4 | Latin | computus | computation, calculation; bank account |
| 5 | Latin | computō | to calculate, compute, reckon together |
| 6 | Latin | putō | to clean, cleanse |
| 7 | Latin | putus | pure; a boy |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | puHtós | pure, clean |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pewH- | to be clean, pure |