Where does “mamatayan” come from?
mamatayan (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog matay, from Tagalog pumatay, from Tagalog um-, from Spanish andar, from Vulgar Latin and(i)tare, from Latin ambitare, from Latin adito, from Latin adeō — to be bright; sky, heaven.
mamatayan (Tagalog): to lose someone or something due to death; to grieve for a death
Definitions
- to lose someone or something due to death; to grieve for a death
Ancestry of “mamatayan”, step by step
mamatayan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Tagalog matay
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | matay | to die |
| 2 | Tagalog | pumatay | to kill; complete aspect of pumatay |
| 3 | Tagalog | um- | "actor trigger": to do something; "no trigger":... |
| 4 | Spanish | andar | to walk, to go; to amble, to travel; to ride |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | and(i)tare | to go |
| 6 | Latin | ambitare | present active infinitive of *ambitō;... |
| 7 | Latin | adito | I go to or approach often; second-person singular... |
| 8 | Latin | adeō | so, thus, so much |
| 9 | Interlingua | deo | a god, deity |
| 10 | French | Dieu | God; to God |
| 11 | Middle French | Dieu | God Christian deity |
| 12 | Old French | deü | Alternative form of deu |
| 13 | Latin | Deus | God |
| 14 | Latin | dẹ̄vos | — |
| 15 | Old Latin | deivos | god, deity |
| 16 | Proto-Italic | deiwos | god, deity |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | deywós | god |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | dyew- | to be bright; sky, heaven |
via Tagalog ma- -an
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | ma- -an | to suffer the quality of adjective indicated |
| 2 | Tagalog | -an | object trigger: to do something to a person or a... |
| 3 | Proto-Philippine | *-an | verbal suffix marking locative focus |
| 4 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | -an | Verbal suffix marking locative focus; Nominal... |
| 5 | Proto-Austronesian | -an | Verbal suffix marking locative focus; Nominal... |