Kunjilon

I was just looking up the word 'palangi', Samoan for 'foreigner'. I was surprised to see that there was no suggestion of a connection with the very similar word used in several parts of Asia. In the entry for 'farang' (which is the Thai form of this word), the section on etymology mentions several other languages which also have words which seem to have a similar derivation, including the Malay 'feringgi'. Curiously (to me), the derivation that I have seen in the past is not clearly favored in the 'farang' article, namely the derivation from the French name for themselves: 'français' comes into Thai as 'farangset', with the same first two syllables as 'farang'.

Anyway, I am writing this simply to ask why it is not possible that Samoan 'palangi' might not have a similar derivation history. Kunjilon (talk) 03:43, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

March 2014

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