Where does “kinahapunan” come from?

kinahapunan (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog hapon, from Spanish Japón, from Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Hokkien 日本, from Middle Chinese 日本 — Land of the Rising Sun.

kinahapunan (Tagalog): the day before yesterday

Definitions

  1. the day before yesterday

Ancestry of “kinahapunan”, step by step

kinahapunan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog hapon

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagaloghaponafternoon
2SpanishJapónJapan
3PortugueseJapãoJapanese
4MalayJepangJapanese
5Hokkien日本Japan; Japanese; Japan
6Middle Chinese日本Land of the Rising Sun

via Tagalog ka- -an

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogka- -anused to form abstract nouns
2Proto-Austronesian*ka- -an—
Every word from Middle Chinese 日本 →Every word from Hokkien 日本 →Every word from Malay Jepang →