Where does “kalikasan” come from?

kalikasan (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog likas, from Kapampangan likas — translate.

kalikasan (Tagalog): nature

Definitions

  1. nature

Ancestry of “kalikasan”, step by step

kalikasan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog likas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagaloglikasnatural; exodus, evacuation
2Kapampanganlikastranslate

via Tagalog ka- -an

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogka- -anused to form abstract nouns
2Proto-Austronesian*ka- -an—

Words derived from “kalikasan”

Every word from Kapampangan likas →Every word from Tagalog likas →