Where does “lekoʼ salasa” come from?

lekoʼ salasa (Makasar) comes from Makasar Salasa, from Arabic ثَلَاثَاء.

lekoʼ salasa (Makasar): a betel leaf with veins that are more slanted and irregular than usual

Definitions

  1. a betel leaf with veins that are more slanted and irregular than usual

Ancestry of “lekoʼ salasa”, step by step

lekoʼ salasa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Makasar Salasa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1MakasarSalasaTuesday
2Arabicثَلَاثَاء—

via Makasar lekoʼ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Makasarlekoʼleaf in general
Every word from Arabic ثَلَاثَاء →Every word from Makasar Salasa →