Where does “tanah” come from?

tanah (Balinese) comes from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tanəq — earth, soil, land.

tanah (Balinese): ashes

Definitions

  1. ashes

Ancestry of “tanah”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*tanəqearth, soil, land
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