Reconstruction:Proto-Chamic/dalam

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word Reconstruction:Proto-Chamic/dalam. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word Reconstruction:Proto-Chamic/dalam, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say Reconstruction:Proto-Chamic/dalam in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word Reconstruction:Proto-Chamic/dalam you have here. The definition of the word Reconstruction:Proto-Chamic/dalam will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofReconstruction:Proto-Chamic/dalam, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
This Proto-Chamic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Chamic

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daləm, from Proto-Austronesian *daləm.

Noun

*dalam

  1. inside

Adjective

*dalam

  1. inside, deep

Preposition

*dalam

  1. in, inside, within

Descendants

  • Acehnese: dalam, lam
  • Coastal Chamic
  • Highlands Chamic

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
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*dalem”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI