Where does “menghitamkan” come from?

menghitamkan (Indonesian) comes from Indonesian meng- -kan, from Indonesian meng-, from Malay meng-, from Proto-Malayic *mAN-, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *maN-, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *maN-, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maN- — inflectional prefix marking actor voice.

menghitamkan (Indonesian): to blacken

Definitions

  1. to blacken

Ancestry of “menghitamkan”, step by step

menghitamkan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Indonesian meng- -kan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianmeng- -kanused to form adjectives that denoting the presence of a quality in any degree (typically abundance of)
2Indonesianmeng-agent focus, frequently but erroneously called...
3Malaymeng-agent focus, frequently but erroneously called...
4Proto-Malayic*mAN-—
5Proto-Malayo-Chamic*maN-—
6Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan*maN-—
7Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*maN-inflectional prefix marking actor voice

via Indonesian hitam

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianhitamblack
2Malayhitamblack
3Proto-Malayichitəmblack
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesianqitəmblack
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maN- →Every word from Indonesian meng- →Every word from Indonesian meng- -kan →