Where does “lepas pantai” come from?

lepas pantai (Indonesian) comes from Indonesian lepas, from Malay lepas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ləpas — to set free, to let loose, to be liberated.

lepas pantai (Indonesian): offshore

Definitions

  1. offshore

Ancestry of “lepas pantai”, step by step

lepas pantai traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Indonesian lepas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianlepasuntethered
2Malaylepasafter, past, ago
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*ləpasto set free, to let loose, to be liberated

via Indonesian pantai

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianpantaibeach
2Malaypantaibeach, coast
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