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Indonesian
Etymology
Inconclusive. There is possibility that Indonesian hampir is a loanword from Dutch amper (“scarcely, barely”) as its high and almost universal usage in Flemish, which in turn was derived from Middle Dutch amper (“sour”), which had similar semantic development to German sehr (“very”) and Alemannic German rüüdig (“very”) and cognates of Swedish amper and German Ampfer.
Pronunciation
Adverb
hampir
- almost (very close to)
Derived terms
Further reading
Malay
Etymology
Possibly from Dutch amper (“scarcely, barely”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
hampir
- almost (very close to)