That's interesting, Nina,

Does piekeren comes from pieker (BI pikir; BM fikir)?

Piya

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 2:39 AM, Nina van Gorkom <vangorko@...> wrote:

> Dear Piya and Jo.
> this is an aside from the Pali. I think pikiran is from Dutch
> piekeren, which means thinking over long, tending to worrying.
> Nina.
> Op 31-mrt-2008, om 16:07 heeft Piya Tan het volgende geschreven:
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> > I think Indonesian tends to be more natural in
> > terms
> > of personal processes, such as thinking or mind = pikiran, which is
> > fikiran
> > in BM.
>
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