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It’s more than halfway through the month and I haven’t made any blog posts yet. I feel the urge to publish something. I’m sitting on several drafts right now, none quite ready. And yet, here I am, starting another draft, for what seems like a sense of obligation. Where does that obligation come from? In high school we had the subject Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao, what amounted to values education. My guess for the derivation of pagpapakatao is pag-pa-RED-ka-tao: tao means “human”. Blust and Wolff agree on the Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau “person” as its etymology, though they differ in its Proto-Austronesian reconstruction, with Blust taking *Cau and Wolff preferring *tau. In either case, it’s cognate to the word for “human” across many of the Austronesian languages. ka- makes it stative, so *katao is “humanness”. This isn’t a word on its own, but we derive pagkatao “personality” and katauhan “personhood” from it. From the latter we also get sangkatauhan “humanity”. pa- makes it causative

It’s more than halfway through the month and I haven’t made any blog posts yet. I feel the urge to publish something. I’m sitting on several drafts right now, none quite ready. And yet, here I am, starting another draft, for what seems like a sense of obligation. Where does that obligation come from? In high school we had the subject Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao, what amounted to values education. My guess for the derivation of pagpapakatao is pag-pa-RED-ka-tao : tao means “human”. Blust and Wolff agree on the Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau “person” as its etymology, though they differ in its Proto

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