Where does “wĕntĕn” come from?

wĕntĕn (Old Javanese) comes from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian wada — to be.

Ancestry of “wĕntĕn”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Malayo-Polynesianwadato be
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian wada
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