Where does “mamakyaw” come from?

mamakyaw (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog pakyaw, from Hokkien 跋繳.

mamakyaw (Tagalog): to buy wholesale

Definitions

  1. to buy wholesale

Ancestry of “mamakyaw”, step by step

mamakyaw traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog pakyaw

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogpakyawwholesale buying; contract labor
2Hokkien跋繳—

via Proto-Kartvelian mam-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Kartvelianmam-father
Every word from Hokkien 跋繳 →Every word from Tagalog pakyaw →