Where does “pujaan hati” come from?

pujaan hati (Indonesian) comes from Indonesian hati, from Malay hati, from Proto-Malayic hati, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian qatay, from Proto-Austronesian qaCay — liver.

pujaan hati (Indonesian): one's darling; sweetheart

Definitions

  1. one's darling; sweetheart

Ancestry of “pujaan hati”, step by step

pujaan hati traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Indonesian hati

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianhatiliver; heart
2Malayhatiliver; heart
3Proto-Malayichatiliver
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesianqatayliver
5Proto-AustronesianqaCayliver

via Indonesian pujaan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianpujaan
Every word from Proto-Austronesian qaCayEvery word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian qatayEvery word from Proto-Malayic hati