ꦏꦼꦤ
Javanese
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Javanese kĕna (“right, proper, fitting, suitable; hit by, touched by, subjected to, being the object of”), from Proto-Austronesian *keNa (“be ensnared, caught in a trap; suffer, undergo, be struck by something; be entrapped or deceived; hit the mark, be ‘on target’, correct, right, true”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editꦏꦼꦤ (kena) (ngoko)
Alternative forms
editSynonyms
editDescendants
edit- → Indonesian: kena (semantic loan)
Further reading
edit- The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta (2015) “kena”, in Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa) [Javanese Language Dictionary (Javanese Dictionary)] (in Javanese), Yogyakarta: Kanisius, →ISBN