kuyba
Cebuano
noun
Definitions
- a cave; a large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground, or in the face of a cliff or a hillside
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish, Castilian cueva (cave) derived from Latin *cova, cavus (hollow, concave, cavity, sunken).
Origin
Latin
cavus
Gloss
hollow, concave, cavity, sunken
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
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Property
Kanji
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cavus English
- *cova Latin
- caverna Latin
- cavifrons Latin
- cavirostris Latin
- cavitas Latin
- cavo Latin
- cavus Latin
- concavus Latin
- cavagno Italian
- cavo Italian
- cave French
- cavo Spanish, Castilian
- cueva Spanish, Castilian
- *ḱewh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱówHwos Proto-Indo-European
- cava Catalan, Valencian
- cavorco Galician
- căuș Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- gaură Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- zgăura Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- kuweba Tagalog
- cova Old Portuguese
- gavrã Aromanian
- *kawos Proto-Italic
- cueva Asturian
- cueua Old Spanish