Where does “kagubatan” come from?

kagubatan (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog Gubat, from Proto-Philippine *gubat.

kagubatan (Tagalog): forest; jungle

Definitions

  1. forest; jungle

Ancestry of “kagubatan”, step by step

kagubatan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog Gubat

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TagalogGubatwoods; woodland; forest
2Proto-Philippine*gubat—

via Tagalog ka- -an

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogka- -anused to form abstract nouns
2Proto-Austronesian*ka- -an—
Every word from Proto-Philippine *gubat →Every word from Tagalog Gubat →
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