Where does “tidak” come from?
tidak (Indonesian) comes from Malay tidak, from Proto-Malayic daʔ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian diaq — not.
tidak (Indonesian): not
Ancestry of “tidak”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Malay | tidak | not |
| 2 | Proto-Malayic | daʔ | — |
| 3 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | diaq | not |
Words derived from “tidak”