Where does “nante” come from?

nante (Kapampangan) comes from Kapampangan ta, from Kapampangan ita, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (i-)tu, from Proto-Austronesian (i-)Cu — that.

nante (Kapampangan): what are we going to do?

Definitions

  1. what are we going to do?

Ancestry of “nante”, step by step

nante traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Kapampangan ta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Kapampangantawe; us (1st personal plural inclusive short absolutive form)
2Kapampanganitathat; it far from both the speaker and the person addressed
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesian(i-)tuthat
4Proto-Austronesian(i-)Cuthat

via Kapampangan nanu

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

via Kapampangan ya

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Kapampanganyahe; she
2Proto-Austronesian(si-)iahe, him, his, she, her, it
Every word from Proto-Austronesian (i-)Cu →Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (i-)tu →Every word from Kapampangan ita →