Where does “nanta” come from?

nanta (Kapampangan) comes from Kapampangan nanu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian anu, from Proto-Austronesian (na-)nu — what.

nanta (Kapampangan): such things

Definitions

  1. such things

Ancestry of “nanta”, step by step

nanta traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Kapampangan nanu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Kapampangannanuwhat
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesiananuwhat?
3Proto-Austronesian(na-)nuwhat

via Kapampangan ita

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Kapampanganitathat; it far from both the speaker and the person addressed
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesian(i-)tuthat
3Proto-Austronesian(i-)Cuthat

via Kapampangan nan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Kapampangannan—
Every word from Proto-Austronesian (na-)nu →