Where does “mamahagi” come from?

mamahagi (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog bahagi, from Austronesian *baqagi.

mamahagi (Tagalog): to share; to distribute

Definitions

  1. to share; to distribute

Ancestry of “mamahagi”, step by step

mamahagi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog bahagi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogbahagipart; fraction; portion; section
2Austronesian*baqagi—

via Proto-Kartvelian mam-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Kartvelianmam-father
Every word from Austronesian *baqagi →Every word from Tagalog bahagi →