kerongkongan

a word from vocabulary Indonesian by Uri Tadmor  
Word form kerongkongan
LWT meaning(s)
Word meaning Throat, especially as a conduit of nourishment.
Comments on word The word is potentially analyzable into rongkong ‘larynx, uvula’ and ke.an ‘a nominalizing circumfix’. However, it was probably borrowed from Javanese krongkongan.
Analyzability semi-analyzable
Age Modern [27] (1700–2007)
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