Talk:simula

Tagalog Etymology
What's the source for this etymology? I'm thinking that it's more probably that it was borrowed directly from Malay, and ultimately from Sanskrit. Mar vin kaiser (talk) 07:05, 6 October 2022 (UTC)


 * @Mar vin kaiser Possibly, but I'm thinking there has to be a prefix "si-" (or maybe "sing-") that is cognate to the Malay one to make sense of terms like "simuno", "magsi- ", "pani- (pang+si-)", "katulad"/"kasingtulad". Ysrael214 (talk) 11:46, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
 * So what's the source that you used? --Mar vin kaiser (talk) 14:26, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
 * @Mar vin kaiser No proper source aside from Malay se- has the same use as sing- is. Anyway, this can just be interpreted as some "si-" attached to mula. The mula root is confirmed by Diccionario Tagalog-Hispano. But sure you can change it to a borrowing. An alternate form in Vocabulario de la lengua Tagala is sa mula (with space though). Ysrael214 (talk) 15:45, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
 * @Mar vin kaiser Potet says si- involves sa + i- (directional prefix, like ibabaw) on his Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates. Search for *sa-i-muláq. Ysrael214 (talk) 23:01, 6 October 2022 (UTC)