Malayan derives from English Malaya plus the Italian suffix -ana, from Spanish -ana, from Latin -anus, ultimately from Proto-Italic -os, a masculine nominative singular ending.
Malayan (English): A person from Malaysia or the former Malaya; a...
Definitions
A person from Malaysia or the former Malaya; a...
Ancestry of “Malayan”, step by step
Malayan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.