Where does “namatay” come from?

namatay (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog matay, from Tagalog pumatay, from Tagalog um-, from Spanish andar, from Vulgar Latin and(i)tare, from Latin ambitare, from Latin adito, from Latin adeō — to be bright; sky, heaven.

namatay (Tagalog): past of mamatay

Definitions

  1. past of mamatay

Ancestry of “namatay”, step by step

namatay traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog matay

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogmatayto die
2Tagalogpumatayto kill; complete aspect of pumatay
3Tagalogum-"actor trigger": to do something; "no trigger":...
4Spanishandarto walk, to go; to amble, to travel; to ride
5Vulgar Latinand(i)tareto go
6Latinambitarepresent active infinitive of *ambitō;...
7LatinaditoI go to or approach often; second-person singular...
8Latinadeōso, thus, so much
9Interlinguadeoa god, deity
10FrenchDieuGod; to God
11Middle FrenchDieuGod Christian deity
12Old FrenchdeüAlternative form of deu
13LatinDeusGod
14Latindẹ̄vos
15Old Latindeivosgod, deity
16Proto-Italicdeiwosgod, deity
17Proto-Indo-Europeandeywósgod
18Proto-Indo-Europeandyew-to be bright; sky, heaven

via Tagalog na

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalognaalready; now; now; already; connects adjectives...
2Proto-Austronesian*na
Every word from Proto-Indo-European dyew-