Where does “tagalo” come from?
tagalo (Spanish) comes from Tagalog Tagalog, from Tagalog ilog, from Proto-Philippine *iluʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *iluʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *iluʀ.
tagalo (Spanish): Tagalog
Ancestry of “tagalo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Tagalog | Tagalog | The Tagalog language; To speak in the Tagalog... |
| 2 | Tagalog | ilog | river |
| 3 | Proto-Philippine | *iluʀ | — |
| 4 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | *iluʀ | — |
| 5 | Proto-Austronesian | *iluʀ | — |