Where does “kanak” come from?

kanak (Indonesian) comes from Malay kanak, from Proto-Malayic anak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian anak, from Proto-Austronesian aNak — child.

kanak (Indonesian): child

Definitions

  1. child

Ancestry of “kanak”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malaykanakchild; an unnamed child
2Proto-Malayicanakchild
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesiananakchild
4Proto-AustronesianaNakchild

Words derived from “kanak”

Every word from Proto-Austronesian aNak →Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian anak →Every word from Proto-Malayic anak →