cicak

a word from vocabulary Indonesian by Uri Tadmor  
Word form cicak
LWT meaning(s)
Word meaning House lizard
Comments on word Originally there were no specific terms for ‘garden lizard’ and ‘house lizard’; cicak meant ‘lizard’ in general (as it still does in Malaysian). After kadal ‘garden lizard’ was borrowed into Indonesia, the meaning of cicak was narrowed to ‘house lizard’.
Analyzability unanalyzable
Age Prehistorical [27] (500–500)
Register General