Etymograph

English

Java

Java comes from Javanese Jawa ‘Javanese’, and goes back to Old Javanese Jawa.

  1. Old JavanesemodernJawa‘Javanese’
  2. Javanesemodernsame form‘Javanese’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1996Java

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Old JavanesemodernJawa‘Javanese’
  2. Javanesemodernsame form‘Javanese’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1996Java

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The story

Borrowed from Javanese Jawa, via Franco-Italian and Latin, possibly from Sanskrit यव-द्वीप (yava-dvīpa, “island of barley”), used in reference to the coffee grown on Java and nearby islands since at least 1850. The programming language (initially called Oak) is a reference to java, the blend of coffee from the island.

Every English word from Old Javanese Jawa

Today it means

name An island in the Indonesian Archipelago, Indonesia.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Old Javanese Jawa / Java

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