balai

Indonesian

/balai̯/

noun

Definitions

a public hall or building
an office or bureau
a house of parliament

Etymology

Inherited from Malay balai (house, station, department) inherited from Proto-Malayic *balay derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay derived from Proto-Austronesian *balay.

Origin

Proto-Austronesian

*balay

Gloss

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

balai Malay
balai polis Malay
*balay Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
*balay Proto-Austronesian
*balay Proto-Malayic
balé Javanese
ꦧꦭꦺ Javanese
*pale Proto-Oceanic
*balay Proto-Philippine
*balay Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
bai Palauan
walai Central Dusun