Where does “tamanngapaya” come from?

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

tamanngapaya (Makasar): safe; unharmed; free from danger

Definitions

  1. safe; unharmed; free from danger

Ancestry of “tamanngapaya”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1MakasarmaN-
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*maN-inflectional prefix marking actor voice
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maN-Every word from Makasar maN-