Where does “kemalangan” come from?

kemalangan (Malay) comes from Malay ke- -an, from Proto-Malayic *kə- -an, from Proto-Austronesian *ka- -an.

kemalangan (Malay): accident unintended event that causes damage

Definitions

  1. accident unintended event that causes damage

Ancestry of “kemalangan”, step by step

kemalangan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Malay ke- -an

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malayke- -anness; appended to adjectives to form nouns meaning "the state of (the adjective)", "the quality of (the adjective)", or "the measure of (the adjective)"
2Proto-Malayic*kə- -an—
3Proto-Austronesian*ka- -an—

via Malay malang

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malaymalangadversity, misfortune, mischance
2Proto-Malayic*malaŋ—
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesianmalaŋmisfortune, bad luck
Every word from Proto-Austronesian *ka- -an →