English
agaration
Agaration comes from Malay agak ‘to estimate’.
- Malaymodernagak‘to estimate’
- Englishearliest quotation 2000agaration
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Malaymodernagak‘to estimate’
- Englishearliest quotation 2000agaration
Earliest quotation: 2000, Samuel Lee, Life! This Weekend: “Free of dents and scrapes so far, any wrong…”
The story
The r is epenthetic.
Every English word from Malay agak
Today it means
noun Estimation
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Malay agak / agaration