Where does “kaskas” come from?

kaskas (Tagalog) comes from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaskás.

kaskas (Tagalog): act of rubbing or scraping a hard object (such as ice) onto a hard surface (such as a grinding stone)

Definitions

  1. act of rubbing or scraping a hard object (such as ice) onto a hard surface (such as a grinding stone)

Ancestry of “kaskas”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*kaskás
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaskás
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