Talk:bisa
Latest comment: 1 year ago by Ysrael214 in topic Source
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@Ysrael214 Could you explain the source? Thanks. Mar vin kaiser (talk) 09:46, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
- Explanation here https://www.trussel2.com/ACD/acd-lo_p.htm?zoom_highlight=bisa and Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates p 277. Currently not visible in preview but searchable in preview search text. Ysrael214 (talk) 10:15, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
- @Mar vin kaiser "Borrowing, ultimately from Sanskrit. This comparison is remarkable for at least two reasons: 1) although it seems clearly to be a Sanskrit loan which acquired much of its attested distribution as a result of borrowing from Malay, it originally referred to animal (particularly snake) venom, a referent for which a native term would normally be expected, 2) the word is very widespread in the Philippines and both western and eastern Indonesia, and has acquired a variety of secondary meanings including that of general force or power, skill, knowledge and ability. In Malay and some other languages (e.g. Rembong) this abstraction and generalization of the original concrete nominal sense has gone even further, leading to the use of bisa as an auxiliary verb meaning 'can, be able'." Ysrael214 (talk) 10:15, 18 July 2022 (UTC)