Maˈlayo-
used as combining form of Malay; chiefly in Malayo-Polynesian a., the designation of the race to which the Malays and most of the Polynesians belong, and of the group of allied languages including Malay and the Polynesian dialects.
| 1842 Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 327, I shall term these people the Malayo-Polynesian..race. 1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 288/1 Their [sc. the Macassars'] language..belongs to the Malayo-Javanese group. 1878 W. E. Cousins Malagasy Lang. in Trans. Phil. Soc. 303 The Malayo-Polynesian languages. Ibid. 426 ff. 1879 A. H. Keane in A. R. Wallace Australasia 607 Papûans proper in the centre; Malayo-Papûans in the Indian Archipelago. 1880 A. H. Sayce Introd. Sci. of Lang. II. viii. 188 The agglutinated adjuncts..may be almost wholly dispensed with, as in Malayo-Polynesian. 1887 A. Featherman Social Hist. Races Mankind II. i. 251 The Malayo-Melanesians are the most important branch of the Melanesian stock. 1896 A. H. Keane Ethnol. 285 The Negroid Malayo-Malagasy peoples of Madagascar. Ibid. 331 Semi-cultured and rude Malayo-African populations. Ibid. 333 The 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 German Lang. i. ii. 35 A Creolized language, in this case a blend called Malayo-Portuguese, which was used by the whites in dealing with slaves. |