Where does “ratu” come from?

ratu (Old Javanese) comes from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian datu — king.

ratu (Old Javanese): king

Definitions

  1. king

Ancestry of “ratu”, step by step

ratu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Malayo-Polynesian datu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Malayo-Polynesiandatuking

via Austronesian *datu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Austronesian*datu—

Words derived from “ratu”

Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian datu →