Where does “beras” come from?

beras (Malay) comes from Proto-Malayic bəras, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian bəʀas, from Proto-Austronesian bəʀas — rice.

beras (Malay): uncooked rice

Definitions

  1. uncooked rice

Ancestry of “beras”, step by step

beras traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Malayic bəras

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Malayicbərasrice
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesianbəʀasrice
3Proto-Austronesianbəʀasrice

via Austronesian *bəʀas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Austronesian*bəʀas—

Words derived from “beras”

Every word from Proto-Austronesian bəʀas →Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian bəʀas →Every word from Proto-Malayic bəras →