Where does “ta” come from?

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

ta (Kapampangan): we; us (1st personal plural inclusive short absolutive form)

Definitions

  1. we; us (1st personal plural inclusive short absolutive form)

Ancestry of “ta”, step by step

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

Words derived from “ta”

Every word from Proto-Austronesian (i-)Cu →Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (i-)tu →Every word from Kapampangan ita →