Origin of the word 'batik'?

[Malcolm Ross]

Among the many people who replied to let me know that the list is
working fine -- thank you all -- was Takeshi Ishizawa. Apparently no
one answered the question repeated below. Can someone please help?

Malcolm

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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 04:01:24 +0900
From: ISHIZAWA Takeshi <QWK06417 at nifty.ne.jp>
Reply-To: QWK06417 at nifty.ne.jp
To: " AUSTRONESIAN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS" <AN-LANG at anu.edu.au>
Subject: "batik" has proto-Austronesian origin ?

Dear all,

Please tell me the origin of the word "batik", Indonesian textile.
I had read that "batik" origin is a proto-Austronesian word, *baTik,
means "lay on colors".
Is that true ?

Thanks in advance,


ISHIZAWA Takeshi
e-mail: QWK06417 at nifty.ne.jp
homepage"Esai-esai tentang masyarakat Jepang"
http://www.02.246.ne.jp/~semar/
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