Where does “datu” come from?

datu (Tagalog) comes from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian datu — king.

datu (Tagalog): datu

Definitions

  1. datu

Ancestry of “datu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Malayo-Polynesiandatuking

Words derived from “datu

Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian datu
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