Where does “kakanggata” come from?

kakanggata (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog gata — coconut milk.

kakanggata (Tagalog): first undiluted juice extracted from coconut meat; coconut cream

Definitions

  1. first undiluted juice extracted from coconut meat; coconut cream

Ancestry of “kakanggata”, step by step

kakanggata traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog gata

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagaloggatacoconut milk

via Tagalog kaka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogkakaelder sibling
Every word from Tagalog gata
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