Where does “rumah makan” come from?

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

rumah makan (Indonesian): restaurant, an eating establishment in which diners are served food, usually by waiters at their tables but sometimes (as in a fast food restaurant) at a counter

Definitions

  1. restaurant, an eating establishment in which diners are served food, usually by waiters at their tables but sometimes (as in a fast food restaurant) at a counter

Ancestry of “rumah makan”, step by step

rumah makan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Indonesian rumah

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianrumahhouse; home
2Malayrumahhouse; home
3Classical Malayrumahhouse; home
4Proto-Malayicrumahhouse
5Proto-Malayo-Polynesianʀumaqhouse
6Proto-Austronesianʀumaqhouse

via Indonesian makan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianmakanto eat
2Malaymakanto eat; consume, spend; to injure or penetrate
3Proto-Malayicmakanto eat
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesiankaənto eat
5Proto-Austronesiankaənto eat
Every word from Proto-Austronesian ʀumaq