Word Origin Summary

*salaq is attested in Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• salah

  Indonesian · inherited from

• yala

  Pukapuka · inherited from

• salah

  MSA · inherited from

• sara

  Mansaka · inherited from

• ซาละฮ

  Urak Lawoi' · inherited from

• sala

  Cebuano · inherited from

• sala

  Ternate · derived from

• sala'

  Maranao · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root