All 1025 words Journeys Roots Languages Beyond English Method

More

Languages A–Z Pricing Developers & API

Built by Quentin.Code

alpa: Phoenician → Ancient Greek → Spanish → Tagalog · Lexodus

Unreviewed (from Wiktionary)Beyond English

alpa

Borrowed from Spanish alfa, from Ancient Greek ἄλφα (álpha), from Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ /⁠ʾālep⁠/).

Weakest linkProbable

Unreviewed

This journey was extracted automatically from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and hasn't been checked by a person yet. Dates marked “c.” are estimated from each language's period, and every hop is graded at best “probable”.

The road to Tagalog

Sources

Wiktionary: alpa (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wiktextract / kaikki.org

c. 950 BCEPhoenician

Export “alpa”

Embed “alpa”

Save “alpa”

c. 950 BCE
c. 670 BCE
c. 1330
c. 1700

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.