Where does “kadayaan” come from?

kadayaan (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog daya, from Malay daya, from Proto-Malayic daya, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian daya, from Proto-Austronesian daya — landward; upstream.

kadayaan (Tagalog): ways of cheating; tricks; hoaxes

Definitions

  1. ways of cheating; tricks; hoaxes

Ancestry of “kadayaan”, step by step

kadayaan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog daya

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogdayadeceit; fraud; dodge
2Malaydayalandward; upstream; trick
3Proto-Malayicdaya—
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesiandayalandward; upstream; to trick
5Proto-Austronesiandayalandward; upstream

via Tagalog ka- -an

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogka- -anused to form abstract nouns
2Proto-Austronesian*ka- -an—
Every word from Proto-Austronesian daya →Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian daya →Every word from Proto-Malayic daya →