Where does “lepaskan” come from?

lepaskan (Malay) comes from Malay kan, from Malay bukan, from Classical Malay bukan.

lepaskan (Malay): let go

Definitions

  1. let go

Ancestry of “lepaskan”, step by step

lepaskan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Malay kan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malaykanisn't it?
2Malaybukanno; not; isn't it?
3Classical Malaybukan—

via Malay lepas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malaylepasafter, past, ago
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*ləpasto set free, to let loose, to be liberated
Every word from Classical Malay bukan →