Where does “ammakkaraʼ” come from?

ammakkaraʼ (Makasar) comes from Makasar aN-, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maN- — inflectional prefix marking actor voice.

ammakkaraʼ (Makasar): to open; to unroll e.g., a mat or a rolled leaf

Definitions

  1. to open; to unroll e.g., a mat or a rolled leaf

Ancestry of “ammakkaraʼ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1MakasaraN-derivational prefix forming intransitive verbs from nouns and other roots
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*maN-inflectional prefix marking actor voice
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maN- →Every word from Makasar aN- →