[Groop] The Big Fight at the National in NYC

[Chris Emmett]

The well recognised web site on words by Michael Quinion:
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/malay.htm  (about half way down)
gives the OED (via Marsden's) definition: it comes from Malay.
I have to say it doesn't sound very Middle Eastern either, which might deprecate the Saracen connection, but I'm no expert :-)

Womble

--- On Sat, 29/11/08, Ryan Simmons <ryan.gsimmons at gmail.com> wrote:
I thought the word "amok" came from the crusade wars.  I read once that occasionally a muslim warrior would charge the christian armies alone and just beserk out trying to kill everyone he could before he was inevitably killed.  "Running amok".  Maybe I read an innacurate history of the term.



On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:20 PM, azamin zainol abidin <azamin7 at streamyx.com> wrote:




      
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