-in

Tagalog

suffix
Definitions
  • to perform the action of the verb to someone or something
  • to do something in the (physical or psychological) direction of
  • to be affected or overtaken by a condition, feeling or phenomenon
  • with root word reduplication to do something occasionally, at random, a little, a bit, now and then or here and there

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *-ən inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *-ən inherited from Proto-Austronesian *-ən.

Origin

Proto-Austronesian

*-ən

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