< Reconstruction:Proto-Chamic
Reconstruction:Proto-Chamic/dalam
Proto-Chamic
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Chamic [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan [Term?], from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daləm, from Proto-Austronesian *daləm.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /daləm/
Noun
*dalam
- inside (interior or inner part)
Adjective
*dalam
- inside (within)
- deep
Descendants
- Acehnese: dalam, lam
- Coastal Chamic:
- Eastern Cham: ꨕꨤꩌ (dalam)
- Haroi: lăm
- Highlands Chamic:
- Jarai: dơlăm
- Rade: êlam
- Chru–Northern Chamic:
- Chru: lăm
- Northern Chamic:
- Northern Roglai: dalap
- Tsat: laːn⁴²
Further reading
- Thurgood, Graham (1999) From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, page 287.