Where does “mamamahiin” come from?

mamamahiin (Tagalog) comes from Proto-Kartvelian mam- — father.

mamamahiin (Tagalog): doomsayer about superstitious beliefs

Definitions

  1. doomsayer about superstitious beliefs

Ancestry of “mamamahiin”, step by step

mamamahiin traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Kartvelian mam-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Kartvelianmam-father

via Tagalog bahi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogbahilines of the palm used for fortunetelling
Every word from Proto-Kartvelian mam-