Where does “balang” come from?
balang (Wiradhuri) comes from Tagalog bala, from Spanish bala, from French balle, from Middle French balle, from Italian balla, from Old French balle, from Medieval Latin balla, from Frankish balla.
balang (Wiradhuri): head
Definitions
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Ancestry of “balang”, step by step
balang traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Tagalog bala
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | bala | bullet |
| 2 | Spanish | bala | bullet |
| 3 | French | balle | (small) ball |
| 4 | Middle French | balle | ball; bundle |
| 5 | Italian | balla | large bundle, torsello, bale, reap; falsehood,... |
| 6 | Old French | balle | — |
| 7 | Medieval Latin | balla | — |
| 8 | Frankish | balla | — |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | balluz | round object, ball; ball of the hand, foot, etc |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |
via Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balalaŋ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | *balalaŋ | grasshopper, locust |