Where does “mag-isip” come from?

mag-isip (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog Isip, from Proto-Philippine *ísip.

mag-isip (Tagalog): to think

Definitions

  1. to think

Ancestry of “mag-isip”, step by step

mag-isip traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog Isip

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TagalogIsipthinking; thought
2Proto-Philippine*ísip—

via Bikol Central isip

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Bikol Centralisip—
2Proto-Austronesian*ísip—
Every word from Proto-Philippine *ísip →