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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

proto-malay

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.00 in modern English

Syllables
pro-to--malay
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An Austronesian speaker who moved from mainland Asia to the Malay peninsula and Malay archipelago in a long series of migrations between 2500 and 1500 BC, before that of the Deutero-Malays about a thousand years later.

Etymology

From proto- + Malay.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Proto-Malays (plural)

Questions

What does proto-malay mean?
An Austronesian speaker who moved from mainland Asia to the Malay peninsula and Malay archipelago in a long series of migrations between 2500 and 1500 BC, before that of the Deutero-Malays about a thousand years later.
Where does proto-malay come from?
From proto- + Malay.

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