Where does “urang” come from?

urang (Minangkabau) comes from Proto-Malayic uraŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *uʀaŋ — outsider.

urang (Minangkabau): people; person

Definitions

  1. people; person

Ancestry of “urang”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Malayicuraŋoutsider
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*uʀaŋoutsider
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *uʀaŋ →Every word from Proto-Malayic uraŋ →
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