Where does “kapandakan” come from?

kapandakan (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog pandak, from Malay pendek, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pandak.

kapandakan (Tagalog): shortness of stature

Definitions

  1. shortness of stature

Ancestry of “kapandakan”, step by step

kapandakan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog pandak

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogpandakshort
2Malaypendekshort
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*pandak—

via Tagalog ka- -an

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogka- -anused to form abstract nouns
2Proto-Austronesian*ka- -an—
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pandak →Every word from Malay pendek →Every word from Tagalog pandak →