Where does “jalan” come from?

jalan (Malay) comes from Proto-Malayic jalan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian zalan, from Proto-Austronesian zalan — path.

jalan (Malay): path; road; street; track; way; to go on, to go...

Definitions

  1. path; road; street; track; way; to go on, to go...

Ancestry of “jalan”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Malayicjalanpath
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesianzalanpath
3Proto-Austronesianzalanpath

Words derived from “jalan

Every word from Proto-Austronesian zalanEvery word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian zalanEvery word from Proto-Malayic jalan