Where does “kapuluan” come from?

kapuluan (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog pulo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian puluq, from Proto-Austronesian puluq — ten.

kapuluan (Tagalog): archipelago

Definitions

  1. archipelago

Ancestry of “kapuluan”, step by step

kapuluan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog pulo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogpuloisland
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesianpuluqten
3Proto-Austronesianpuluqten

via Tagalog ka- -an

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