Where does “anngaeng” come from?

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

anngaeng (Makasar): to care for; to tend to; to nurse someone who is sick

Definitions

  1. to care for; to tend to; to nurse someone who is sick

Ancestry of “anngaeng”, 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- →