Etymograph

English

Konfrontasi

Konfrontasi comes from Indonesian konfrontasi ‘the act of confronting or challenging another,…’, and goes back to Dutch confrontatie.

  1. Dutchc. 1500–presentconfrontatie‘confrontation, the act of confronting or challenging at least one other party’
  2. Indonesianmodernkonfrontasi‘the act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face’
  3. EnglishtodayKonfrontasi

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Dutchc. 1500–presentconfrontatie‘confrontation, the act of confronting or challenging at least one other party’
  2. Indonesianmodernkonfrontasi‘the act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face’
  3. EnglishtodayKonfrontasi

Every English word from Dutch confrontatie

Today it means

name the armed conflict fought between Indonesia and British-backed Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) from 1963 to 1969 in response to the British allies formation of Federation of Malaysia (conclusion of British Malaya, British Sarawak, British North Borneo, and British Singapore)

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

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