Where does “manggagawa” come from?

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

manggagawa (Tagalog): worker; laborer

Definitions

  1. worker; laborer

Ancestry of “manggagawa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogmang-3rd actor trigger verb suffix
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*maN-inflectional prefix marking actor voice

Words derived from “manggagawa”

Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maN- →Every word from Tagalog mang- →