Indom

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. A shortened informal form referring to Indonesia or something connected with the Indonesian nation or its culture
2. An abbreviated label used to stand for Indonesia, especially in casual writing, names, or online contexts
3. A clipped shorthand term pointing to Indonesia or to things that are Indonesian in character

Etymology: Indonesia itself is a 19th-century coinage. In 1850 the Scottish lawyer James Richardson Logan popularised it in a journal published in Singapore, after the ethnologist George Windsor Earl had proposed "Indunesians" as a name for the islands' peoples. It was built from Greek "Indos" ("India") and "nesos" ("island"), so it means "islands of the Indies." "Indom" is a short, clipped form of that name. It takes the first part, "Ind-", and ends in "-om," a trimmed ending, so it works as shorthand rather than as a word with an older history of its own.