Where does “taong-grasa” come from?

taong-grasa (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog grasa, from Spanish grasa, from Vulgar Latin grassa, from Latin crassus, from Old Latin cartsus, from Proto-Italic kartsus, from Proto-Indo-European kr̥t-sú-s, from Proto-Indo-European kert- — to travel, tour.

taong-grasa (Tagalog): very dirty person wandering in the streets usually homeless and poor

Definitions

  1. very dirty person wandering in the streets usually homeless and poor

Ancestry of “taong-grasa”, step by step

taong-grasa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog grasa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagaloggrasagrease
2Spanishgrasafeminine singular of graso; fat or grease used in...
3Vulgar Latingrassa
4Latincrassusdense, thick, solid; fat, gross, plump;...
5Old Latincartsus
6Proto-Italickartsus
7Proto-Indo-Europeankr̥t-sú-s
8Proto-Indo-Europeankert-times; to weave, twist together; time
9Proto-Turkic*keŕ-to travel, tour

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
Every word from Proto-Turkic *keŕ-