Where does “nirawak” come from?

nirawak (Indonesian) comes from Indonesian awak, from Malay awak, from Proto-Malayic *awak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hawak, from Proto-Austronesian *Sawak — waist.

nirawak (Indonesian): unmanned

Definitions

  1. unmanned

Ancestry of “nirawak”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianawakbody
2MalayawakSecond person singular pronoun; you
3Proto-Malayic*awak—
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*hawakwaist
5Proto-Austronesian*Sawakwaist
Every word from Proto-Austronesian *Sawak →Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hawak →Every word from Proto-Malayic *awak →