Where does “tercatuk” come from?

tercatuk (Malay) comes from Malay ter-, from Classical Malay ter-, from Proto-Malayic tAr-, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian taʀ-, from Proto-Austronesian taʀ-.

tercatuk (Malay): be pecked or be tapped (literally)

Definitions

  1. be pecked or be tapped (literally)

Ancestry of “tercatuk”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malayter-agentless actions, such as those which are...
2Classical Malayter-for passive intransitive verb, agentless actions,...
3Proto-MalayictAr-—
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesiantaʀ-—
5Proto-Austronesiantaʀ-—
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