Where does “malem” come from?

malem (Sundanese) comes from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maləm.

malem (Sundanese): the night that precedes a given day

Definitions

  1. the night that precedes a given day

Ancestry of “malem”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*maləm
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maləm