Where does “kana” come from?

kana (Kapampangan) comes from Kapampangan ka, from Kapampangan ika, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian i-kahu, from Proto-Austronesian i-kaSu.

kana (Kapampangan): put; to place

Definitions

  1. put; to place

Ancestry of “kana”, step by step

kana traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Kapampangan ka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Kapampangankayou (second person singular)
2Kapampanganikayou exclusive singular
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesiani-kahu—
4Proto-Austronesiani-kaSu—

via Kapampangan na

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Kapampanganna3rd person singular possessive/ergative pronoun: he; his; she; her; it; its
2Kapampangannanuwhat
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesiananuwhat?
4Proto-Austronesian(na-)nuwhat
Every word from Proto-Austronesian i-kaSu →Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian i-kahu →Every word from Kapampangan ika →