Where does “mang-agrabyado” come from?

mang-agrabyado (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog mang-, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maN- — inflectional prefix marking actor voice.

mang-agrabyado (Tagalog): to exploit; to take advantage of someone

Definitions

  1. to exploit; to take advantage of someone

Ancestry of “mang-agrabyado”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogmang-3rd actor trigger verb suffix
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*maN-inflectional prefix marking actor voice
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maN- →Every word from Tagalog mang- →