Etymograph

English

Wallacea

From Wallace + -ia.

Formed from Wallace + -ia

Anglo-Norman waleis ‘foreign’

English Wallace

The story

Named after Alfred Russel Wallace; see Wallace Line.

Today it means

name A group of mainly Indonesian islands separated by deep water straits from the Asian and Australian continental shelves.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Wallacea