Where does “taong-grasa” come from?
taong-grasa (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog grasa, from Spanish grasa, from Vulgar Latin grassa, from Latin crassus, from Old Latin cartsus, from Proto-Italic kartsus, from Proto-Indo-European kr̥t-sú-s, from Proto-Indo-European kert- — to travel, tour.
taong-grasa (Tagalog): very dirty person wandering in the streets usually homeless and poor
Definitions
- very dirty person wandering in the streets usually homeless and poor
Ancestry of “taong-grasa”, step by step
taong-grasa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Tagalog grasa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | grasa | grease |
| 2 | Spanish | grasa | feminine singular of graso; fat or grease used in... |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | grassa | — |
| 4 | Latin | crassus | dense, thick, solid; fat, gross, plump;... |
| 5 | Old Latin | cartsus | — |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | kartsus | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥t-sú-s | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kert- | times; to weave, twist together; time |
| 9 | Proto-Turkic | *keŕ- | to travel, tour |
via Tagalog tao
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | tao | human, human being, person, man; one of the faces... |
| 2 | Tagalog | dalub- | expert |
| 3 | Tagalog | dalubhasa | expert |
| 4 | Malay | jurubahasa | interpreter |
| 5 | Malay | bahasa | language; decorum, appropriate social behavior |
| 6 | Sanskrit | भाषा | speech, language; any Prakrit dialect or a... |
| 7 | Sanskrit | भाष | — |