Where does “walambisa” come from?
walambisa (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog bisa, from Kapampangan bisa, from Spanish visa, from French visa, from Latin visa, from Latin visum, from Latin vīsō, from Latin videō — to see.
Ancestry of “walambisa”, step by step
walambisa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Tagalog bisa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | bisa | efficacy; potency |
| 2 | Kapampangan | bisa | want; like; crave; fond |
| 3 | Spanish | visa | visa |
| 4 | French | visa | a mark or stamp attesting to the performance of... |
| 5 | Latin | visa | nominative plural of vīsum; accusative plural of... |
| 6 | Latin | visum | vision, mental image; nominative neuter singular... |
| 7 | Latin | vīsō | to look at, look into, stare at, view |
| 8 | Latin | videō | to see, perceive; look (at) |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | widēō | see |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | weyd- | to see |