Where does “Kawayan” come from?

Kawayan (Cebuano) comes from Austronesian *kawayan.

Kawayan (Cebuano): any grass of the Poaceae family, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, all of which are in the tribe Bambuseae

Definitions

  1. any grass of the Poaceae family, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, all of which are in the tribe Bambuseae

Ancestry of “Kawayan”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Austronesian*kawayan

Words derived from “Kawayan

Every word from Austronesian *kawayan