Reconstruction:Proto-Malayic/datu

This Proto-Malayic 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-Malayic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Chamic [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *datu.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /datu/

Noun

*datu

1. tribal chief

Descendants

• Malay: datu, datuk, datung, datuk, datok; atuk; tuk
  • Indonesian: datu
  • Indonesian: datuk
  • → Hokkien: 拿督

Further reading

• Karl Alexander Adelaar (1992) Proto Malayic: the reconstruction of its phonology and parts of its lexicon and morphology (Pacific linguistics Ser. C), Canberra: Dep. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian, →ISBN, page 71