Etymograph

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Maguindanao del Sur

Maguindanao del Sur comes from Spanish Maguindánao del Sur.

  1. Spanishc. 1500–presentMaguindánao del Sur
  2. EnglishtodayMaguindanao del Sur

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Spanishc. 1500–presentMaguindánao del Sur
  2. EnglishtodayMaguindanao del Sur

A compound of Maguindánao + del ‘of the’ + sur ‘south’

Maguindanao maginged

Maguindanao danaw

Maguindanao Magindanaw

Spanish Maguindánao

Proto-Indo-European *-teros ‘Contrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix’

Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ún-teros

Proto-Germanic *sunþraz ‘south, southern’

Proto-West Germanic *sunþr ‘southern, southernly’

Old English suþ ‘south’

French sud ‘south’

Spanish sur ‘south’

Today it means

name A province of Bangsamoro, Mindanao, Philippines, created from the division of the former province of Maguindanao. Capital: Buluan.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Spanish Maguindánao del Sur / Maguindanao del Sur