Where does “sulat” come from?

sulat (Kapampangan) comes from Malay surat, from Proto-Malayic surat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *suʀat.

sulat (Kapampangan): writing

Definitions

  1. writing

Ancestry of “sulat”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malaysuratdocument; letter; inscription
2Proto-Malayicsurat
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*suʀat
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *suʀat
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