English
kecapi
Kecapi comes from Indonesian kecapi ‘kacapi: a box zither with an open bottom,…’, and goes back to Sundanese ᮊᮎᮕᮤ.
- Sundanesemodernᮊᮎᮕᮤkacapi‘zither’
- Malaymodernkecapi
- Indonesianmodernsame form‘kacapi: a box zither with an open bottom, played by plucking’
- Englishearliest quotation 1967same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
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- Sundanesemodernᮊᮎᮕᮤkacapi‘zither’
- Malaymodernkecapi
- Indonesianmodernsame form‘kacapi: a box zither with an open bottom, played by plucking’
- Englishearliest quotation 1967same form
Earliest quotation: 1967, Focus on Indonesia: “These stories have been handed down from generation to…”
Every English word from Sundanese ᮊᮎᮕᮤ
Today it means
noun —
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Sundanese ᮊᮎᮕᮤ / kecapi