Where does “walang-bisa” come from?
walang-bisa (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 “walang-bisa”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | bisa | — |
| 2 | Kapampangan | bisa | — |
| 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 | — |
| 8 | Latin | videō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | widēō | see |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | weyd- | to see |