Where does “mangjumbag” come from?

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

mangjumbag (Tagalog): to beat up someone

Definitions

  1. to beat up someone

Ancestry of “mangjumbag”, 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- →