Where does “kinatawan” come from?

kinatawan (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog -in-, from Proto-Austronesian *-in-.

kinatawan (Tagalog): representative

Definitions

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Ancestry of “kinatawan”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalog-in-Infix form of -in
2Proto-Austronesian*-in-—
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