Where does “pakikitungong-tao” come from?

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

pakikitungong-tao (Tagalog): human relations

Definitions

  1. human relations

Ancestry of “pakikitungong-tao”, step by step

pakikitungong-tao 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 pakikitungo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogpakikitungo
Every word from Sanskrit भाष