Re: OT: Another Portuguese (?) question
| From: | Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 5, 2006, 8:08 |
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Re "katana" et al.
Thanks to all for your replies, helpful in a negative way ;-)
Plan C: perhaps the Port/Span. borrowed (native) Jap. katana, then
transplanted it to eastern Indonesia. However, it is odd that the word is
not found in my Malay or Indonesian dictionaries (quite exhaustive)-- as
almost all Port/Span. loans were spread via Malay. But it's not impossible--
they hit up the Moluccas for the spices before they got around to messing
with the rest of Indies....
Plan X, accidental resemblance, is simply too far out in left field; you
just don't get a match of 6 phonemes + semantics.
As usual, "more research is needed".
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