Re: Malay for two: dua

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 18:46:29 +0100: Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com>
scribeva:

Today I have been thinking about my childhood in Singapore nearly 80
years ago. Something that has puzzled me over the years has been the
Malay word for 2, dua, which looks remarkably like the Latin word for
2. I suppose that it's no more than a chance similarity, as it's hard
to imagine that such a basic word should have been borrowed from a
European language. But does anyone know?

No, but I can look it up. Why didn't you?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dua#Malay
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dua#Indonesian

So they're unrelated. It's a chance similarity.
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Ruud Harmsen, https://rudhar.com