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noun
An Austronesian speaker who moved from mainland Asia to the Malay peninsula and Malay archipelago in a long series of migrations between 2500 and 1500 BC, before that of the Deutero-Malays about a thousand years later.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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History
From proto- + Malay.
