Where does “Mikronesies” come from?

Mikronesies (Afrikaans) comes from Afrikaans ies.

Mikronesies (Afrikaans): Micronesian of, from, or pertaining to Micronesia or the Micronesian people

Definitions

  1. Micronesian of, from, or pertaining to Micronesia or the Micronesian people

Ancestry of “Mikronesies”, step by step

Mikronesies traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Afrikaans ies

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Afrikaansies

via Afrikaans Mikronesië

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1AfrikaansMikronesië
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