Where does “ammanggang” come from?

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

ammanggang (Makasar): to have the legs wide apart; to straddle

Definitions

  1. to have the legs wide apart; to straddle

Ancestry of “ammanggang”, step by step

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

Words derived from “ammanggang”

Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maN- →Every word from Makasar aN- →