A relatively late innovation in western Indonesia, with probable borrowing from language__Malay into some of the other languages cited here.
| WMP | ||
| Kadazan Dusun | ganti-an | colored thread |
| Toba Batak | ganti | spin, make cotton thread |
| Malay | antéh | to spin. The meaning covers the whole process of spinning. Possibly from a root |
| meŋ-antéh | to spin. The meaning covers the whole process of spinning. Possibly from a root | |
| Ngaju Dayak | maŋ-antih | to spin, twine |
| kantih | what is spun or twined (yarn) | |
| Sundanese | antéh | cotton thread; also: to spin |
| Madurese | ante | twisting, twining, making thread or string |
| Old Javanese | antih-antih-an | spiderweb |
| aŋ-antih | to spin | |
| Javanese | k-antih | thread spun on a spinning wheel |
| ŋ-antih | to spin (thread); to weave | |
| di-antih | be spun, be woven | |