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Originally Posted by Battara
I am a little surprised that they use "kris" instead of "keris".
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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.
Regards,
Kai