Where does “Nakagawa” come from?

Nakagawa (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog gawa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *gawaq.

Ancestry of “Nakagawa”, step by step

Nakagawa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog gawa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagaloggawarefers to the act of creating and doing...
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*gawaq—

via Japanese 中川

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese中川—
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *gawaq →Every word from Tagalog gawa →