[An-lang] etymology of Malayic "kasi" ('give')

[Tom Hoogervorst]

Dear list,

 

Further to Waruno’s point on the appearance of final
/h/ in Malay vernaculars, it may be added that this tendency is also attested in some loanwords: 


əngkah
‘glue’ < Hokkien n̂g-ka (黃膠)

gajah
‘elephant’ < Sanskrit gaja

galuh
‘gem’ < Sanskrit galū

patih
‘chief minister’ < Sanskrit pati

rupiah
‘a kind of coin’ < Sanskrit rūpya

səkolah
‘school’ < Portuguese escola

səparuh
‘one half’ < Javanese səparo

teh ‘tea’
< Hokkien tê (茶)

 

In addition, the following examples have a word-final
/h/ in Malaysia but not in Indonesia:

 

jaguh
‘champion’ < Javanese jago

tempoh
‘time’ < Portuguese tempo

 

It would seem, as was pointed out before, that this
reflects underexplored processes of interdialectical borrowing prior to the standardization of Malay.


All the best,

Tom Hoogervorst

 		 	   		  
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