Where does “kaisipan” come from?

kaisipan (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog Isip, from Proto-Philippine *ísip.

kaisipan (Tagalog): thought; idea

Definitions

  1. thought; idea

Ancestry of “kaisipan”, step by step

kaisipan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog Isip

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TagalogIsipthinking; thought
2Proto-Philippine*ísip—

via Tagalog ka- -an

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