Re: Chocolate?
| From: | Almaran Dungeonmaster <dungeonmaster@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 8, 2002, 21:53 |
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Roger Mills wrote:
> Teoh wrote:
> >What do you have for the Indonesian version? In Malay it is "coklat", the
> >Malay-fication of the English. Not sure if the Indonesian is the same--it
> >could well be.
>
> Sama-sama. (It's the same); pre-1972 spelled tjoklat. (It also means
> 'brown') Apparently also from Engl. My old Dutch dict. gives _chocolade_
> [Sokolad@]
You state it correctly: "old Dutch". Nowadays, we usually just say "chocola"
and no longer "chocolade", which sounds a bit outdated.
Maarten