Where does “sayang” come from?

sayang (Bikol Central) comes from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sayaŋ.

Ancestry of “sayang”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*sayaŋ
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sayaŋ
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