Where does “lintah” come from?

lintah (Malay) comes from Proto-Malayic lintah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian qali-mətaq, from Proto-Austronesian qaNi-məCaq.

lintah (Malay): leech

Definitions

  1. leech

Ancestry of “lintah”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Malayiclintah—
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesianqali-mətaq—
3Proto-AustronesianqaNi-məCaq—

Words derived from “lintah”

Every word from Proto-Austronesian qaNi-məCaq →Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian qali-mətaq →Every word from Proto-Malayic lintah →