Malayo-
combining form
- Malay; Malay and ...表示“马来（人）”, “马来（人）和…”：
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Malayo-Polynesian.
1842 Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 327,I shall term these people the Malayo-Polynesian..race.
1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 288/1Their language..belongs to the Malayo-Javanese group. [ sc. the Macassars']
1878 W. E. Cousins MalagasyLang. inTrans. Phil. Soc. 303The Malayo-Polynesian languages.
Ibid. 426 ff.
1879 A. H. Keane in A. R. Wallace Australasia 607Papûans proper in the centre; Malayo-Papûans in the Indian Archipelago.
1880 A. H. Sayce Introd. Sci. ofLang. II. viii. 188The agglutinated adjuncts..may be almost wholly dispensed with, as in Malayo-Polynesian.
1887 A. Featherman SocialHist. Races Mankind II. i. 251The Malayo-Melanesians are the most important branch of the Melanesian stock.
1896 A. H. Keane Ethnol. 285The Negroid Malayo-Malagasy peoples of Madagascar.
Ibid. 331Semi-cultured and rude Malayo-African populations.
Ibid. 333The Philippine half-castes may be roughly classed as..Malayo-Indonesians, Malayo-Europeans, and Malayo-Chinese.
1911 Webster, Malayo-Negrito.
1933 . [ see Austric a.]
1934 Priebsch & Collinson GermanLang. i. ii. 35A Creolized language, in this case a blend called Malayo-Portuguese, which was used by the whites in dealing with slaves.
Malayo-
Prefix
- pertaining to Malay, especially as a political entity
Etymology
Shortened unetymologically from Malay in compounds- 20th century formation, perhaps echoing terms like Afro-, Indo-, Sino- etc.