Etymology

wajang

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Dutch wajang ← Javanese ꦮꦪꦁ ← Old Javanese wayaṅ
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The story

  1. Old Javanese · derived fromwayaṅ
  2. Javanese · derived fromꦮꦪꦁ
  3. Dutch · borrowed fromwajang
  4. English todaywajang

Borrowed from Dutch wajang, from Javanese ꦮꦪꦁ (wayang), from Old Javanese wayaṅ.

Words from the same roots

Old Javanesewayaṅ all →

wayang

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.