Where does “Caladieae” come from?
Caladieae (Translingual) comes from Translingual Caladium, from Malay keladi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaladi.
Ancestry of “Caladieae”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Translingual | Caladium | — |
| 2 | Malay | keladi | a root vegetable of the "Colocasia" genus,... |
| 3 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | *kaladi | — |