pengemis

a word from vocabulary Indonesian by Uri Tadmor  
Word form pengemis
LWT meaning(s)
Comments on word Transparently contains the agentive prefix peng-, and related to mengemis ‘to beg’, but the root *kemis is not used in Indonesian with this meaning. Mengemis ‘to beg’ was borrowed from Javanese ngemis, see below.
Analyzability semi-analyzable
Age Early Malay [27] (500–1700)
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