Where does “mangaluluwa” come from?

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

mangaluluwa (Tagalog): to serenade homes to ask for alms while pretending to be souls temporarily released from purgatory on the eve of All Saints' Day

Definitions

  1. to serenade homes to ask for alms while pretending to be souls temporarily released from purgatory on the eve of All Saints' Day

Ancestry of “mangaluluwa”, 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- →