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There's an origin note on the word in Malay, which indicates the root of garam is "garam sira", grains of salt. Do you have something discussing how garam could

• teleforce 5y ago
  Have you checked the database? It contains basic 210 words for many major Austronesian based languages, and conveniently it includes salt as one of basic words inside the database. You can even search and cross check the basic word e.g. salt across more than one thousand Austronesian languages. Another fun fact, the oldest known source of written Cham language is the Dong Yeng Chau inscription tablet written in 4th century AD recently discovered in Central Vietnam. This Old Cham inscription written in an Old Southern Brahmi script and even older than Old Malay language. Amazingly it's still very much understandable if you know the modern Malay-Indonesian language (top ten most used languages)[1]. As a comparison the most studied language in the Americas, Mayan Languages that was spoken around the time of Old Cham, its modern version is not widely being used now. [1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90%C3%B4ng_Y%C3%AAn_Ch%C3%A2u_inscription https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90%C3%B4ng_Y%C3%AAn_Ch%C...