Where does “parigapay” come from?

parigapay (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog parisukat, from Tagalog sukat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sukat.

parigapay (Tagalog): parallelogram

Definitions

  1. parallelogram

Ancestry of “parigapay”, step by step

parigapay traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog parisukat

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogparisukatsquare shape
2Tagalogsukatmeasurement; measure; dimension
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*sukat—

via Tagalog agapay

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogagapayside-by-side; alongside
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sukat →Every word from Tagalog sukat →Every word from Tagalog parisukat →
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