Where does “rumah” come from?

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

rumah (Indonesian): house; home

Definitions

  1. house; home

Ancestry of “rumah”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malayrumahhouse; home
2Classical Malayrumahhouse; home
3Proto-Malayicrumahhouse
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesianʀumaqhouse
5Proto-Austronesianʀumaqhouse

Words derived from “rumah”

Every word from Proto-Austronesian ʀumaq →Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian ʀumaq →Every word from Proto-Malayic rumah →
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