Where does “kekami” come from?
kekami (Kapampangan) comes from Kapampangan ka, from Kapampangan ika, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian i-kahu, from Proto-Austronesian i-kaSu.
kekami (Kapampangan): our
Ancestry of “kekami”, step by step
kekami traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Kapampangan ka
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Kapampangan | ka | you (second person singular) |
| 2 | Kapampangan | ika | you exclusive singular |
| 3 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | i-kahu | — |
| 4 | Proto-Austronesian | i-kaSu | — |
via Kapampangan ikami
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Kapampangan | ikami | we; us (exclusive of the person spoken to) |
| 2 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | kami | we, us, our |
| 3 | Proto-Austronesian | kami | we, us, our |