Where does “kebermaknaan” come from?
kebermaknaan (Indonesian) comes from Indonesian bermakna, from Malay makna, from Indonesian nirmakna, from English meaningless, from English meaning, from English -ing, from Old English -ing, from Old English -tūn — smoke; mist, haze.
kebermaknaan (Indonesian): meaningfulness
Definitions
- meaningfulness
Ancestry of “kebermaknaan”, step by step
kebermaknaan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Indonesian bermakna
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indonesian | bermakna | to mean |
| 2 | Malay | makna | meaning; meaning, significance |
| 3 | Indonesian | nirmakna | meaningless: lacking meaning |
| 4 | English | meaningless | Lacking meaning; Insignificant; not worthy of... |
| 5 | English | meaning | The denotation, referent, or idea connected with... |
| 6 | English | -ing | Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns,... |
| 7 | Old English | -ing | Forming nouns from verbs, indicating action,... |
| 8 | Old English | -tūn | homestead, village, town |
| 9 | Old English | tūn | enclosure, yard; place; dwelling |
| 10 | Proto-West Germanic | tūn | fence |
| 11 | Proto-Germanic | tūną | fence; enclosure |
| 12 | Gaulish | dunum | fort; hill, hillfort |
| 13 | Proto-Celtic | dūnom | stronghold, rampart |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰewh₂- | smoke; mist, haze |
via Indonesian ke- -an
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indonesian | ke- -an | ness; appended to adjectives to form nouns meaning "the state of (the adjective)", "the quality of (the adjective)", or "the measure of (the adjective)" |
| 2 | Malay | ke- -an | ness; appended to adjectives to form nouns meaning "the state of (the adjective)", "the quality of (the adjective)", or "the measure of (the adjective)" |
| 3 | Proto-Malayic | *kə- -an | — |
| 4 | Proto-Austronesian | *ka- -an | — |