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engkau.

Second-person singular pronoun: you, your, yours

6 characters2 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

pron/əŋkau̯/
  1. Second-person singular pronoun: you, your, yours

    Borneo · Medan · informal · poetic
Where this word comes from

From Malay engkau, from Proto-Malayic *kau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kahu, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kaSu. The eng- component is epenthetical to avoid a monosyllabic pronunciation.

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