Where does “sawa” come from?

sawa (Dutch) comes from Malay sawah, from Proto-Austronesian *sabaq.

sawa (Dutch): rice paddy

Definitions

  1. rice paddy

Ancestry of “sawa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malaysawahpaddy; rice paddy
2Proto-Austronesian*sabaq—

Words derived from “sawa”

Every word from Proto-Austronesian *sabaq →