malayo-
malayo- — combining form
1. placed before the name of another people, language family, or region to show tha
placed before the name of another people, language family, or region to show that the thing being described connects the Malay world with that other group — used mainly in language study and history writing.
Professor Kofi opened the lecture with a brief history of the Malayo-Polynesian language family.
Malayo-Polynesian — names a wide family of related languages
Tagalog, Maori, and Hawaiian all belong to the Malayo-Polynesian branch spoken across the Pacific.
Malayo- + Polynesian — links the Malay world to Pacific island peoples
Sari is writing her thesis on Malayo-Javanese trade routes during the fifteenth century.
The museum guide pointed to ceramics that show clear Malayo-Chinese influences along the coast.
- Malay-
informal short form occasionally seen in journalism (Malay-Chinese marriage); Malayo- is the standard form in academic and reference writing.
文法句型
Malayo- + capitalized name
Malayo-Polynesian
Malayo-Indonesian
用法筆記
Always written with a hyphen and joined directly to a capitalized word naming another people, language, or region. The combined form keeps its initial capital because it begins a proper-noun compound. Distinguish from the plain adjective Malay, which describes the Malay people on their own — Malayo- only appears in compounds.