Where does “mangutang” come from?

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

mangutang (Tagalog): to request to lend; to borrow money

Definitions

  1. to request to lend; to borrow money

Ancestry of “mangutang”, 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- →