Where does “panukat” come from?

panukat (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog sukat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sukat.

panukat (Tagalog): measuring instrument

Definitions

  1. measuring instrument

Ancestry of “panukat”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogsukatmeasurement; measure; dimension
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*sukat—
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sukat →Every word from Tagalog sukat →
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