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

[David Gil]

To return to the semantic strand of this ongoing discussion:

By sheer coincidence, I was just browsing through a wordlist of Tidung 
(spoken in Tarakan, Kalimantan Utara), and the word for 'give' is given 
as /saiyang, /which is clearly related to the familiar Malay /sayang/ 
'love'/'compassion'/'pity'.  Seems like an almost completely parallel 
semantic change to that which was posited by several discussants for 
Malay /kasi(h)/, and, in my view, the clincher for this proposed etymology.

Appell-Warren, Laura P. (1978) "The Tarakan Dialect of the Tidung 
Language of East Kalimantan: Distribution and Basic Vocabulary", in A.S. 
Wurm and Lois Carrington eds., Second International Conference on 
Austronesian Linguistics: Proceedings, Pacific Linguistics C-61, 148-166.

-- 
David Gil

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