Reconstruction:Proto-Chamic/dalam

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

1. inside

Adjective

*dalam

1. inside, deep

Preposition

*dalam

1. in, inside, within

Descendants

• Acehnese: dalam, lam
• Coastal Chamic
  • Eastern Cham: dalam
  • Haroi: lăm
• Highlands Chamic
  • 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^[1], 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