ꦧꦶꦱ

Etymology

 * , probably from
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According to Blust and Trussel, the word comes from the same and is very widespread in the Philippines and both western and eastern Indonesia, acquiring 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'.

Verb

 * 1)  can, able