Where does “sayang” come from?

sayang (Tagalog) comes from Austronesian *sayaŋ.

sayang (Tagalog): waste; wasting of a resource, talent, etc

Definitions

  1. waste; wasting of a resource, talent, etc

Ancestry of “sayang”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Austronesian*sayaŋ

Words derived from “sayang

Every word from Austronesian *sayaŋ
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