Where does “manira” come from?

manira (Balinese) comes from Old Javanese manira, from Old Javanese (m)aN-, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maN- — inflectional prefix marking actor voice.

manira (Balinese): I for a king when speaking to his people

Definitions

  1. I for a king when speaking to his people

Ancestry of “manira”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old JavanesemaniraI (first personal pronoun)
2Old Javanese(m)aN-active verb
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*maN-inflectional prefix marking actor voice
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maN- →Every word from Old Javanese (m)aN- →Every word from Old Javanese manira →