Word Origin Summary

Mag-espadahan is attested in Tagalog. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. espadaSpanishderived from
2. *spátʰāProto-Hellenicinherited from
3. σπάθηAncient Greekderived from
4. espadaOld Spanishinherited from
5. spathamLatininherited from

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