Dempwolff (1938) reconstructed *sulaq ‘be bald’, but the limited distribution of this form is better explained as a product of borrowing from language__Malay.
| WMP | ||
| Malay | sulah | bald; hairless |
| Sundanese | sulah | hair on the forehead (pantun/poetic language) |
| Balinese | sulah | bald-headed |
| Malagasy | sula | bald |