frog · wooden block used as shim · a person of Filipino ancestry
köken: From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-bal (“frog”). Cognate with Tibetan སྦལ་པ (sbal pa); has also been tentatively compared with Old Chinese 蹯 (OC *ban, “paw”) (STEDT), as well as to 蟆 (OC *mraː, “toad”) by Luce.