>
> Here is my question:
> Could _katir_ (hut k`it) be the basis for Malay _getah_?
> Edward Schafer, in his article "Rosewood, Dragon's Blood
> and Lac" (1957: 133) saw a connection between Malay
> _getah_ and the Mandarin word he transcribes as "chieh."
> The resin Chau Ju-kuah mentions came from "the Zang
> countries," so could not have been the substitute resins.
>
> 'Sorry about the clumsy orthography.
>

Proto-IndoEuropean *gWet- 'glue, resin, something glutinous'

Hm.

Torsten



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