Re: What's the etymology of ketchup/catsup?

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>An Egyptologist, Charles Jones, believes that the Phoenicians gave their
>alphabet to the Malay (the "Redjang Script") and that Phoenician
>currently lives on as the language of the Redjang of Sumatra.  He even
>has a very nice lexicon available to prove the similarities between the
>two languages.  Check it out at:
>
>http://home.earthlink.net/~cjones3/doc.htm
>
>     (I would add though that Jones' ideas are far from Orthodox, and I
>don't know anyone who agrees with him).

Oh that page is funny, especially the vocabulary bits. I just love the
connection of "asam" with "asem". Not surprisingly it looks alot like the
Tagalog root for sourness, "asim" (maasim - sour) . Tagalog in fact will
often change /e/ to /i/: babae - babae + ng - babaing. So, i see no
surprise that "asem" is related to "asim".

Anyway, question for romilly: does "araw" (day, sun in Tagalog)  descend
from the AN "waRi", if so, i'm wondering how it got to "araw" (any ideas?,
though i know you focus in Indonesian).

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