Where does “pendidikan tinggi” come from?

pendidikan tinggi (Indonesian) comes from Indonesian pendidikan, from Indonesian luar, from Indonesian kelas, from Malay kelas, from Dutch klas, from French classe, from Italian classe, from Spanish clase — to call, cry, summon.

pendidikan tinggi (Indonesian): higher education

Definitions

  1. higher education

Ancestry of “pendidikan tinggi”, step by step

pendidikan tinggi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Indonesian pendidikan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianpendidikaneducation, the process of imparting knowledge,...
2Indonesianluaroutside; external; foreign
3Indonesiankelasclass
4Malaykelasclass
5Dutchklasa school class; a classroom; travel class
6Frenchclasseclass, type, group; "Une classe de conscrits"...
7Italianclasseclass; classroom; style
8Spanishclaselecture; class; kind, sort, type
9Portugueseclasseclass, kind; class; elegance; class
10Germanklassegreat, awesome
11Russianклассclass
12Latinclassisany one of the five divisions into which Servius...
13Proto-Italicklāssis
14Proto-Indo-Europeankelh₁-to call, cry, summon

via Indonesian tinggi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesiantinggihigh, tall
2Malaytinggihigh
3Sanskritतुङ्गprominent, erect, lofty, high; an elevation,...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European kelh₁-