Where does “datang” come from?
datang (Indonesian) comes from Malay datang, from Classical Malay داتڠ, from Proto-Malayic datəŋ.
datang (Indonesian): to come; to arrive
Ancestry of “datang”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Malay | datang | to come |
| 2 | Classical Malay | داتڠ | — |
| 3 | Proto-Malayic | datəŋ | — |