Reconstruction:Proto-Chamic/dalam

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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

inside

Adjective

*dalam

inside, deep

Preposition

*dalam

in, inside, within

Descendants

Acehnese: dalam, lam
Coastal Chamic
- Eastern Cham: dalam
- Haroi: lăm
Highlands Chamic
- Bih: lăm
- 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
Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*dalem”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

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