English
Sarawak
Sarawak comes from poz-sml serawak ‘antimony’.
- poz-smlmodernserawak‘antimony’
- MalaymodernSarawak
- Englishearliest quotation 1972same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- poz-smlmodernserawak‘antimony’
- MalaymodernSarawak
- Englishearliest quotation 1972same form
Earliest quotation: 1972, C. P. FitzGerald, London: Barrie & Jenkins: “In other parts of the Nanyang the Chinese were…”
Every English word from poz-sml serawak
Today it means
name A state in eastern Malaysia. Capital: Kuching.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / poz-sml serawak / Sarawak