Where does “lefso” come from?

lefso (Old High German) comes from Proto-Germanic lepasan, from Indonesian lepas, from Malay lepas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ləpas — to set free, to let loose, to be liberated.

Ancestry of “lefso”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germaniclepasan
2Indonesianlepasuntethered
3Malaylepasafter, past, ago
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*ləpasto set free, to let loose, to be liberated

Words derived from “lefso

Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ləpas