Where does “parampuang” come from?

parampuang (North Moluccan Malay) comes from Malay perempuan, from Malay empu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian əmpu.

parampuang (North Moluccan Malay): female

Definitions

  1. female

Ancestry of “parampuang”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malayperempuanfemale; woman
2MalayempuAn honorific title applied to artists and...
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesianəmpu—
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