Where does “lada” come from?

lada (Makasar) comes from Malay lada, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian lajaq.

lada (Makasar): chili pepper, any fruit of a plant of the botanical genus Capsicum, which has a spicy/burning flavour because it contains capsaicin

Definitions

  1. chili pepper, any fruit of a plant of the botanical genus Capsicum, which has a spicy/burning flavour because it contains capsaicin

Ancestry of “lada”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malayladapepper, chilli; Synonym of merica
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesianlajaq—

Words derived from “lada”

Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian lajaq →Every word from Malay lada →