The story
- Spanish · derived fromFilipinas
- French · borrowed fromPhilippines
- English todayPhilippines
See Name of the Philippines in Wikipedia for a complete etymology. Borrowed from French Philippines, originally from Spanish Filipinas, which was from Felipe (the name of a king of Spain). By surface analysis, Philip + -ine + -s.
Words from the same roots
SpanishFilipinas all →
Filipinx
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.