Where does “mendahului” come from?
mendahului (Indonesian) comes from Indonesian dahulu, from Malay dahulu, from Malay di hulu, from Malay di, from English Dee, from English do, from English ditto, from Italian ditto — asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;...
mendahului (Indonesian): to cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; to precede
Definitions
- to cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; to precede
Ancestry of “mendahului”, step by step
mendahului traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Indonesian dahulu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indonesian | dahulu | before, earlier, previously |
| 2 | Malay | dahulu | before, earlier, previously |
| 3 | Malay | di hulu | — |
| 4 | Malay | di | in; at; on |
| 5 | English | Dee | River Dee |
| 6 | English | do | A syntactic marker |
| 7 | English | ditto | That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the... |
| 8 | Italian | ditto | — |
| 9 | Italian | detto | past participle of dire; past participle of... |
| 10 | Latin | dictus | said, uttered; mentioned, spoken, having been... |
| 11 | Latin | dīcō | to say, talk, speak, utter, mention |
| 12 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 13 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 14 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 15 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 16 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
via Indonesian meng- -i
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indonesian | meng- -i | — |
| 2 | Indonesian | -i | verbal suffix for manipulating, completing, or placing the object from a noun |
| 3 | Malay | -i | locative, repetitive, or exhaustive; added to... |
| 4 | English | -ee | Added to transitive verbs to form words meaning a... |
| 5 | French | -ée | Forming feminine nouns having the sense of... |
| 6 | Middle French | -ee | forms a feminine noun indicating a quantity or content measured by what the base noun denotes, often translatable as |
| 7 | Latin | -eus | argentum + API → argenteus; ferrum + API →... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -εῖος | Forms adjectives, usually with a meaning of "of"... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -iHwós | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -wós | Creates adjectives from verb stems |