Where does “uring manggagawa” come from?

uring manggagawa (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog manggagawa, from Tagalog mang-, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maN- — inflectional prefix marking actor voice.

uring manggagawa (Tagalog): working class

Definitions

  1. working class

Ancestry of “uring manggagawa”, step by step

uring manggagawa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog manggagawa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogmanggagawaworker; laborer
2Tagalogmang-3rd actor trigger verb suffix
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*maN-inflectional prefix marking actor voice

via Tagalog uri

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagaloguritype, class, kind
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maN- →Every word from Tagalog mang- →Every word from Tagalog manggagawa →