Where does “-mo” come from?

-mo (Ilocano) comes from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *-mu, from Proto-Austronesian *-amu.

-mo (Ilocano): Second-person singular ergative enclitic pronoun; you

Definitions

  1. Second-person singular ergative enclitic pronoun; you

Ancestry of “-mo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*-mu
2Proto-Austronesian*-amu
Every word from Proto-Austronesian *-amu
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