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Old 9th November 2005, 08:22 AM   #3
kai
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Originally Posted by Battara
I am a little surprised that they use "kris" instead of "keris".
That's just the Dutch common name which stuck with these blades. You know that the early seafaring accounts use many different transliterations/corruptions of the local names and the spelling "kris" seems to have been adopted in several European languages, at least during the later parts of the colonial period.

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