Etymology

kena

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Today it means: To experience, receive, suffer, get or be affected by (something negative). Full definition →

Malay kena
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The story

  1. Malay · borrowed fromkena“to be struck, hit, affected by”
  2. English todaykena

Borrowed from Malay kena (“to be struck, hit, affected by”).

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