Where does “longganisa” come from?
longganisa (Tagalog) comes from Spanish longaniza, from Latin lucanica, from Latin lucanicus, from Latin Lūcānia, from Latin -ia, from Latin -ius, from Proto-Italic -jōs, from Proto-Indo-European -yós — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
longganisa (Tagalog): pork sausage
Ancestry of “longganisa”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Spanish | longaniza | pork sausage; wiener, dick |
| 2 | Latin | lucanica | a kind of sausage, Lucanian sausage, lucanica;... |
| 3 | Latin | lucanicus | Lucanian |
| 4 | Latin | Lūcānia | — |
| 5 | Latin | -ia | Used to form a feminine abstract noun, usually... |
| 6 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |