English
Navotas
Navotas comes from Tagalog nabutas ‘complete aspect of mabutas’, and goes back to butas ‘hole’.
- Tagalogmodernbutas‘hole’
- Tagalog, derivedmodernnabutas‘complete aspect of mabutas’
- Spanishc. 1500–presentNavotas
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Tagalogmodernbutas‘hole’
- Tagalog, derivedmodernnabutas‘complete aspect of mabutas’
- Spanishc. 1500–presentNavotas
- Englishtodaysame form
Every English word from Tagalog butas
Today it means
name An independent city in Metro Manila, Philippines.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Tagalog butas / Navotas