Where does “telebabad” come from?
telebabad (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog telepono, from Spanish teléfono, from Spanish tele-, from Ancient Greek τῆλε, from Latin commūnicāre, from Latin commūnis, from Old Latin com(m)oinis, from Proto-Italic kommoinis — resin, gum; to say, speak.
telebabad (Tagalog): spending a long time on the telephone
Definitions
- spending a long time on the telephone
Ancestry of “telebabad”, step by step
telebabad traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Tagalog telepono
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | telepono | telephone |
| 2 | Spanish | teléfono | telephone; telephone number |
| 3 | Spanish | tele- | tele |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | τῆλε | far off, afar, far away |
| 5 | Latin | commūnicāre | — |
| 6 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 7 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 12 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 13 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 14 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 15 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 16 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
via Tagalog telebisyon
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | telebisyon | television |
| 2 | Spanish | televisión | television |
| 3 | Spanish | visión | vision; vision, sight; view |
| 4 | Latin | vīsiō | seeing, sight, vision, view |
| 5 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 6 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 7 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 8 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 9 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 10 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 11 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |