Where does “menyerupai” come from?

menyerupai (Indonesian) comes from Indonesian serupa, from Malay serupa, from Malay se-, from Old Malay sa-, from Proto-Malayic sA-, from Proto-Malayic əsa, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic əsa, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan əsa.

menyerupai (Indonesian): to resemble

Definitions

  1. to resemble

Ancestry of “menyerupai”, step by step

menyerupai traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Indonesian serupa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianserupasimilar
2Malayserupasimilar
3Malayse-one; used to form the comparative of adjectives;...
4Old Malaysa-
5Proto-MalayicsA-one
6Proto-Malayicəsa
7Proto-Malayo-Chamicəsa
8Proto-Malayo-Sumbawanəsa
9Proto-Malayo-Polynesianəsaone
10Proto-Austronesian*əsa
11Proto-Oceanic*isa

via Indonesian meng- -i

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianmeng- -i
2Indonesian-iverbal suffix for manipulating, completing, or placing the object from a noun
3Malay-ilocative, repetitive, or exhaustive; added to...
4English-eeAdded to transitive verbs to form words meaning a...
5French-éeForming feminine nouns having the sense of...
6Middle French-eeforms a feminine noun indicating a quantity or content measured by what the base noun denotes, often translatable as
7Latin-eusargentum + API → argenteus; ferrum + API →...
8Ancient Greek-εῖοςForms adjectives, usually with a meaning of "of"...
9Proto-Indo-European-iHwós
10Proto-Indo-European-wósCreates adjectives from verb stems
Every word from Proto-Oceanic *isaEvery word from Proto-Austronesian *əsaEvery word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian əsa