Where does “sandaang libo” come from?

sandaang libo (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog sandaan, from Tagalog daan, from Proto-Philippine dalan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian zalan, from Proto-Austronesian zalan — path.

sandaang libo (Tagalog): one hundred thousand

Definitions

  1. one hundred thousand

Ancestry of “sandaang libo”, step by step

sandaang libo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog sandaan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogsandaanone hundred
2Tagalogdaanpath, way, road; hundred
3Proto-Philippinedalanpath a trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians; a course taken (made by humans as opposed to an animal)
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesianzalanpath
5Proto-Austronesianzalanpath

via Tagalog libo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagaloglibothousand
2Malayributhousand; million
3Proto-Malayic*ribu—
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*ʀibuthousand
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