Where does “karunungan” come from?

karunungan (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog dunong, from Proto-Philippine *dunuŋ.

karunungan (Tagalog): wisdom

Definitions

  1. wisdom

Ancestry of “karunungan”, step by step

karunungan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog dunong

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogdunongwisdom
2Proto-Philippine*dunuŋ—

via Tagalog ka- -an

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

Words derived from “karunungan”

Every word from Proto-Philippine *dunuŋ →Every word from Tagalog dunong →