Where does “keuntungan” come from?

keuntungan (Malay) comes from Malay untung, from Classical Malay ontong, from Proto-Malayic untuŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian utuŋ.

keuntungan (Malay): gain

Definitions

  1. gain

Ancestry of “keuntungan”, step by step

keuntungan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Malay untung

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malayuntunggain
2Classical Malayontong—
3Proto-Malayicuntuŋgain
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesianutuŋ—

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—
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian utuŋ →Every word from Proto-Malayic untuŋ →Every word from Classical Malay ontong →