Where does “Kabayan” come from?

Kabayan (Tagalog) comes from Old Javanese wayah, from Sanskrit वयस्, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wáyHas.

Kabayan (Tagalog): countryman or someone from the same town

Definitions

  1. countryman or someone from the same town

Ancestry of “Kabayan”, step by step

Kabayan traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Old Javanese wayah

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Javanesewayahage
2Sanskritवयस्age
3Proto-Indo-Iranian*wáyHas—

via Tagalog bayan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogbayantown; municipality; nation; country; motherland;...

via Old Javanese ka- -an

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Javaneseka- -an—

Words derived from “Kabayan”

Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wáyHas →Every word from Sanskrit वयस् →Every word from Old Javanese wayah →