Where does “lalaki” come from?

lalaki (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog laki, from Proto-Philippine *dakəl.

lalaki (Tagalog): man; boy; guy; a male human who is adolescent or...

Definitions

  1. man; boy; guy; a male human who is adolescent or...

Ancestry of “lalaki”, step by step

lalaki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog laki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagaloglakisize
2Proto-Philippine*dakəl—

via Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*laki—

Words derived from “lalaki”

Every word from Proto-Philippine *dakəl →Every word from Tagalog laki →