Indonesian

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अक्षय (akṣaya). The intermediate form would be *aksaya, but later subject to unusual orthographic variation by replacing -s- to -ç-, likely during the Dutch colonial era. The letter was only used in that context by some Romance languages and their loanwords elsewhere including in Dutch (compare French çûdra). As the non-diacritical variant of -ç- collapses with native -c-, it was displaced by native pronunciation /tʃ/. The original spelling was preserved by some emblems such as that of West Kalimantan.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [akˈsa.ja], [akˈtʃaja]
  • Hyphenation: ak‧ça‧ya

Adjective

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akçaya

  1. imperishable, undecaying

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