English
Zamboanga del Sur
Zamboanga del Sur comes from Spanish Zamboanga del Sur.
- Spanishc. 1500–presentZamboanga del Sur
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Spanishc. 1500–presentZamboanga del Sur
- Englishtodaysame form
A compound of Zamboanga + del ‘of the’ + sur ‘south’
Central Sama sambuwang ‘large mooring post’
Central Sama Samboangan ‘mooring place’
Spanish Zamboanga
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’
Every English word from Spanish Zamboanga del Sur
Today it means
name A province of Zamboanga Peninsula, Mindanao, Philippines. Capital: Pagadian. Largest city: Zamboanga City.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Spanish Zamboanga del Sur / Zamboanga del Sur