Where does “pahilis” come from?

pahilis (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog pa-, from Proto-Austronesian pa- — causative prefix.

pahilis (Tagalog): acute accent used to indicate stress on a following syllable in Tagalog words

Definitions

  1. acute accent used to indicate stress on a following syllable in Tagalog words

Ancestry of “pahilis”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogpa-"adverbial prefix" - "Indicates process of...
2Proto-Austronesianpa-causative prefix
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