Where does “kemungkinan” come from?
kemungkinan (Indonesian) comes from Indonesian mungkin, from Malay mungkin, from Arabic مُمْكِن, from Arabic أَمْكَنَ — to be possible.
kemungkinan (Indonesian): possibility, likelihood
Definitions
- possibility, likelihood
Ancestry of “kemungkinan”, step by step
kemungkinan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Indonesian mungkin
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indonesian | mungkin | maybe, perhaps, possibly, probably |
| 2 | Malay | mungkin | maybe, perhaps, possibly; maybe, perhaps,... |
| 3 | Arabic | مُمْكِن | possible |
| 4 | Arabic | أَمْكَنَ | to be possible |
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 | — |