English
agar-agar
Agar-agar comes from Malay agar-agar ‘jelly’.
- Malaymodernagar-agar‘jelly’
- Englishearliest quotation 2018same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Malaymodernagar-agar‘jelly’
- Englishearliest quotation 2018same form
Earliest quotation: 2018, Zoe Williams: “That done, you heat soya milk with oil and…”
Every English word from Malay agar-agar
Another origin of agar-agar
- Malaymodernagak-agak
- Englishtodayagar-agar
Here, the letter k represents a glottal stop, but it is elided by many speakers in Singapore.
Today it means
noun Agar.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Malay agar-agar / agar-agar