Where does “tagalog” come from?

tagalog (French) comes from Tagalog Tagalog, from Tagalog ilog, from Proto-Philippine *iluʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *iluʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *iluʀ — river channel.

tagalog (French): Tagalog

Definitions

  1. Tagalog

Ancestry of “tagalog”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TagalogTagalogThe Tagalog language; To speak in the Tagalog...
2Tagalogilogriver
3Proto-Philippine*iluʀriver
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*iluʀriver
5Proto-Austronesian*iluʀriver channel
Every word from Proto-Austronesian *iluʀ →