Where does “landak” come from?

landak (Indonesian) comes from Malay landak, from Proto-Malayic *landak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *landak — porcupine.

landak (Indonesian): porcupine

Definitions

  1. porcupine

Ancestry of “landak”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malaylandakporcupine large rodent
2Proto-Malayic*landakporcupine
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*landakporcupine

Words derived from “landak”

Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *landak →Every word from Proto-Malayic *landak →Every word from Malay landak →