Where does “pagar hidup” come from?

pagar hidup (Indonesian) comes from Indonesian hidup, from Malay hidup, from Proto-Malayic hidup, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian qudip, from Proto-Austronesian qudip, from Proto-Austroasiatic *qudip.

pagar hidup (Indonesian): hedge (a thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden)

Definitions

  1. hedge (a thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden)

Ancestry of “pagar hidup”, step by step

pagar hidup traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Indonesian hidup

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianhidupto live; life
2Malayhiduplife; to live
3Proto-Malayichiduplife
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesianqudiplife
5Proto-Austronesianqudiplife, alive
6Proto-Austroasiatic*qudip

via Indonesian pagar

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianpagarfence, hedge
2Malaypagarfence; fence, hedge
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*pager
Every word from Proto-Austroasiatic *qudipEvery word from Proto-Austronesian qudipEvery word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian qudip
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