Where does “-kami” come from?

-kami (Ilocano) comes from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian kami, from Proto-Austronesian kami — we, us, our.

-kami (Ilocano): First-person plural exclusive absolutive enclitic pronoun; we (not you); us (not you)

Definitions

  1. First-person plural exclusive absolutive enclitic pronoun; we (not you); us (not you)

Ancestry of “-kami”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Malayo-Polynesiankamiwe, us, our
2Proto-Austronesiankamiwe, us, our

Words derived from “-kami”

Every word from Proto-Austronesian kami →Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian kami →