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batok · Visayan / Kalinga

batok

What it is

From Proto-Austronesian beCik, tattoo, with relatives patik, mottled, and *burik, speckled — the word for a pattern, applied to skin, cloth and pot alike.

Root

From Proto-Austronesian *beCik, tattoo, with relatives *patik, mottled, and *burik, speckled — the word for a pattern, applied to skin, cloth and pot alike.

Where each claim comes from
FieldTierSourceNote
defaultcitedBatok — Wikipedia (en)
text_thinferencewritten in Thai by this project, not machine-translated

Sources

cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there

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