Where does “mengenakan” come from?
mengenakan (Indonesian) comes from Indonesian kena, from Malay kena, from Malay کنا, from Norwegian Bokmål kna, from Swedish knåda, from Old Swedish knodha, from Old Norse knoða, from Proto-Germanic knudaną.
mengenakan (Indonesian): to be dressed in, to wear; to put on
Definitions
- to be dressed in, to wear; to put on
Ancestry of “mengenakan”, step by step
mengenakan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Indonesian kena
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indonesian | kena | to touch, hit |
| 2 | Malay | kena | to incur, to bring upon oneself, to be touched... |
| 3 | Malay | کنا | — |
| 4 | Norwegian Bokmål | kna | to knead |
| 5 | Swedish | knåda | to knead |
| 6 | Old Swedish | knodha | — |
| 7 | Old Norse | knoða | — |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | knudaną | to knead |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | gnét- | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵen- | — |
via Indonesian meng- -kan
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indonesian | meng- -kan | used to form adjectives that denoting the presence of a quality in any degree (typically abundance of) |
| 2 | Indonesian | meng- | agent focus, frequently but erroneously called... |
| 3 | Malay | meng- | agent focus, frequently but erroneously called... |
| 4 | Proto-Malayic | *mAN- | — |
| 5 | Proto-Malayo-Chamic | *maN- | — |
| 6 | Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan | *maN- | — |
| 7 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | *maN- | inflectional prefix marking actor voice |