Where does “na” come from?
na (Kapampangan) comes from Kapampangan nanu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian anu, from Proto-Austronesian (na-)nu — what.
Ancestry of “na”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Kapampangan | nanu | what |
| 2 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | anu | what? |
| 3 | Proto-Austronesian | (na-)nu | what |