Where does “talunan” come from?

talunan (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog talon, from Spanish talón, from Vulgar Latin *tālō.

talunan (Tagalog): defeated; beaten; never able to win in war, games, sports, politics, etc

Definitions

  1. defeated; beaten; never able to win in war, games, sports, politics, etc

Ancestry of “talunan”, step by step

talunan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog talon

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogtalonjump; leap from a height
2Spanishtalónheel; check
3Vulgar Latin*tālō—

via Tagalog talo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogtalodispute; argument; quarrel; defeat; loss; loser
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesiantalu—
Every word from Vulgar Latin *tālō →