Where does “cemara udang” come from?

cemara udang (Indonesian) comes from Indonesian udang, from Malay udang, from Classical Malay udang, from Proto-Malayic *hudaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *hudaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *hudaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian qudaŋ, from Proto-Austronesian qudaŋ — shrimp; crayfish; lobster.

cemara udang (Indonesian): Casuarina equisetifolia

Definitions

  1. Casuarina equisetifolia

Ancestry of “cemara udang”, step by step

cemara udang traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Indonesian udang

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianudangprawn, shrimp: a common name for small aquatic crustaceans with an exoskeleton and ten legs, of the genus Stenasellus, the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata
2Malayudangshrimp, prawn, any elongated non-carcine decapod crustacean
3Classical Malayudang
4Proto-Malayic*hudaŋshrimp; prawn; lobster
5Proto-Malayo-Chamic*hudaŋ
6Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan*hudaŋ
7Proto-Malayo-Polynesianqudaŋshrimp; crayfish; lobster
8Proto-Austronesianqudaŋshrimp; crayfish; lobster

via Malay cemara

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malaycemaracasuarina
2Sanskritचामर
Every word from Proto-Austronesian qudaŋEvery word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian qudaŋEvery word from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *hudaŋ
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