Where does “lidah” come from?

lidah (Malay) comes from Proto-Malayic *dilah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian dilaq, from Proto-Austronesian dilaq, from Proto-Austroasiatic *dilaq.

lidah (Malay): tongue organ

Definitions

  1. tongue organ

Ancestry of “lidah”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Malayic*dilah—
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesiandilaqtongue
3Proto-Austronesiandilaq—
4Proto-Austroasiatic*dilaq—

Words derived from “lidah”

Every word from Proto-Austroasiatic *dilaq →Every word from Proto-Austronesian dilaq →Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian dilaq →
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