ꦱꦼꦥꦸꦂ

Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch spoor (“railway track”), from Middle Dutch spor, from Old Dutch *spor, from Proto-Germanic *spurą, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-.

Noun

ꦱꦼꦥꦸꦂ (sepur)

1. train

Descendants

• → Indonesian: sepur (“train”) (semantic loan)

Further reading

• The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta (2015) “sepur”, in Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa) [Javanese Language Dictionary (Javanese Dictionary)] (in Javanese), Yogyakarta: Kanisius, →ISBN