Etymograph

English

Kawi

Kawi comes from Sanskrit कवि ‘wise man, sage, seer, prophet’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *(s)kowh₁-i-s.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)kowh₁-i-sreconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2500–1800 BCE*káwHiš‘seer, saint, poet’reconstructed
  3. Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEकविkavi‘wise man, sage, seer, prophet’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1869Kawi

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)kowh₁-i-sreconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2500–1800 BCE*káwHiš‘seer, saint, poet’reconstructed
  3. Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEकविkavi‘wise man, sage, seer, prophet’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1869Kawi

Earliest quotation: 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago: “They speak the Javanese and Kawi languages, which they…”

Every English word from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kowh₁-i-s

Today it means

name A literary and prose language based on Old Javanese with a large number of Sanskrit loanwords, and used on the islands of Java, Bali, and Lombok.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *(s)kowh₁-i-s / Kawi

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