Where does “Sundas” come from?
Sundas (English) comes from English Sunda, from Indonesian Pasundan, from Sundanese Sunda, from Sanskrit सु-, from Proto-Indo-Aryan Hsu-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian Hsu-, from Proto-Indo-European h₁su-, from Proto-Indo-European h₁wes- — good; to be cheerful, happy; to eat, to feast.
Sundas (English): The Sunda Islands, an archipelago in Indonesia, commonly split into the Greater Sundas and the Lesser Sundas
Definitions
- The Sunda Islands, an archipelago in Indonesia, commonly split into the Greater Sundas and the Lesser Sundas
Ancestry of “Sundas”, step by step
Sundas traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Sunda
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Sunda | Sunda Islands, a group of islands in the western part of the Malay archipelago |
| 2 | Indonesian | Pasundan | West Java |
| 3 | Sundanese | Sunda | Sunda all senses relating to regions of Southeast Asia |
| 4 | Sanskrit | सु- | good, well |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-Aryan | Hsu- | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | Hsu- | good |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁su- | good |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁wes- | good; to be cheerful, happy; to eat, to feast |
via English S
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | S | The ordinal number nineteenth, derived from this... |