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From: Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Malay for two: dua
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 18:46:29 +0100
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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?

-- 
Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly 
in England until 1987.