Where does “ilog” come from?

ilog (Pangasinan) comes from Tagalog ilog, from Proto-Philippine *iluʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *iluʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *iluʀ — river channel.

ilog (Pangasinan): river

Definitions

  1. river

Ancestry of “ilog”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogilogriver
2Proto-Philippine*iluʀriver
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*iluʀriver
4Proto-Austronesian*iluʀriver channel
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