Where does “persekutuan dagang” come from?

persekutuan dagang (Indonesian) comes from Indonesian persekutuan, from Malay persekutuan, from Malay per- -an.

persekutuan dagang (Indonesian): trading partnership

Definitions

  1. trading partnership

Ancestry of “persekutuan dagang”, step by step

persekutuan dagang traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Indonesian persekutuan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianpersekutuanalliance, union
2Malaypersekutuanunion
3Malayper- -an—

via Indonesian dagang

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesiandagangtrade
2Malaydagang—
Every word from Malay per- -an →Every word from Malay persekutuan →Every word from Indonesian persekutuan →