Where does “matauhan” come from?

matauhan (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog tao, from Tagalog dalub-, from Tagalog dalubhasa, from Malay jurubahasa, from Malay bahasa, from Sanskrit भाषा, from Sanskrit भाष.

matauhan (Tagalog): to come to one's senses; to gain awareness; to become aware from unconsciousness, of one's mistakes

Definitions

  1. to come to one's senses; to gain awareness; to become aware from unconsciousness, of one's mistakes

Ancestry of “matauhan”, step by step

matauhan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog tao

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogtaohuman, human being, person, man; one of the faces...
2Tagalogdalub-expert
3Tagalogdalubhasaexpert
4Malayjurubahasainterpreter
5Malaybahasalanguage; decorum, appropriate social behavior
6Sanskritभाषाspeech, language; any Prakrit dialect or a...
7Sanskritभाष

via Tagalog ma- -han

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogma- -han
Every word from Sanskrit भाष