proto-Malay
noun
pro·to-Malay
¦prōt(ˌ)ō+
plural -s
: a member of a group of people believed to have migrated to the Malay Peninsula over three thousand years ago preceding the migration of the deutero-Malays
proto-Malayan
adjective
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