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helai

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Indonesian

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Etymology 1

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1. From Malay helai, from Tamil இலை (ilai, “leaf, petal”).[1]

2. From Malayo-Javanic ˣhǝlai, ultimately from Proto-Austroasiatic, related to Proto-Munda *[u]-laʔ and Proto-Mon-Khmer *s-laʔ, likely borrowed from Aslian *sǝ-laʔ.[2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [həˈlai̯]
  • Hyphenation: hê‧lai
  • Rhymes: -ai̯

Noun

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hêlai

  1. sheet

Classifier

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hêlai

  1. Classifier used for thin, flat and smooth objects.
    Synonym: lembar

Derived terms

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Etymology 2

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From Sentani [Term?].

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈhelai̯]
  • Hyphenation: hé‧lai

Noun

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hélai

  1. (cooking) a kind of wok

References

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  1. ^ Hoogervorst, Tom (2015). "Detecting pre-modern lexical influence from South India in Maritime Southeast Asia". Archipel. 89: 74.
  2. ^
    2024 October 31, Waruno Mahdi, “Austroasiatic loanwords in Austronesian languages”, in Wacana, pages 373–414:
    The Malayo-Javanic cognate set for ‘sheet [of]’ cited in Table 16 seems most likely to have been borrowed from Aslian.

Further reading

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