Where does “kapisanan” come from?
kapisanan (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog pisan, from Tagalog -an, from Proto-Philippine *-an, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian -an, from Proto-Austronesian -an — Verbal suffix marking locative focus; Nominal...
kapisanan (Tagalog): association; guild; totality or the aggregation of people under and on behalf of either religion, principle, and/or purpose
Definitions
- association; guild; totality or the aggregation of people under and on behalf of either religion, principle, and/or purpose
Ancestry of “kapisanan”, step by step
kapisanan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Tagalog pisan
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | pisan | stuck together, strung together |
| 2 | Tagalog | -an | object trigger: to do something to a person or a... |
| 3 | Proto-Philippine | *-an | verbal suffix marking locative focus |
| 4 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | -an | Verbal suffix marking locative focus; Nominal... |
| 5 | Proto-Austronesian | -an | Verbal suffix marking locative focus; Nominal... |