Where does “rumah” come from?

rumah (Brunei Malay) comes from Proto-Malayic rumah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian ʀumaq, from Proto-Austronesian ʀumaq — house.

rumah (Brunei Malay): house abode

Definitions

  1. house abode

Ancestry of “rumah”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Malayicrumahhouse
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesianʀumaqhouse
3Proto-Austronesianʀumaqhouse
Every word from Proto-Austronesian ʀumaq →Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian ʀumaq →Every word from Proto-Malayic rumah →