Do you know anything about the word "kek" being a general word for Chinese pole arms? I have seen it in a 19th c. account of Southern Chinese weapons by an American author, and in Dreager's "Weapons and fighting arts of Indonesia". I suspect it is a dialect term of the Haka or similar ethnic group. Various kinds of pole arms are then combined with the word "kek" much in the way that varieties of saber are combined with "dao".
Within the martial arts community, Chinese Indonesians say "kwan dao", and use other dialect words for other weapons such as "shang to" for "shuang dao".
Josh
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