Where does “pagdahak” come from?

pagdahak (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog pag-, from Tagalog kapag, from Tagalog kapagka — if.

pagdahak (Tagalog): act of expelling out phlegm from the throat

Definitions

  1. act of expelling out phlegm from the throat

Ancestry of “pagdahak”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogpag-Used to form verbal nouns from verbs prefixed...
2Tagalogkapagif
3Tagalogkapagkaif
Every word from Tagalog kapagka →Every word from Tagalog pag- →Every word from Tagalog kapag →