War, law & rule

kris

The wavy-bladed dagger of Java and the Malay world is Old Javanese kĕris; Malay keris reached English in the 1580s through travellers' accounts, with spellings from creese to kriss.

Weakest linkCertain

The road to English

From Old Javanese to Javanese, Dutch, German

From Malay to Portuguese

From Malay to Spanish

From Dutch to French

From Malay to Indonesian

900 CEOld Javanese

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.

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