<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">The well recognised web site on words by Michael Quinion:<br>http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/malay.htm (about half way down)<br>gives the OED (via Marsden's) definition: it comes from Malay.<br>I have to say it doesn't sound very Middle Eastern either, which might deprecate the Saracen connection, but I'm no expert :-)<br><br>Womble<br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 29/11/08, Ryan Simmons <i><ryan.gsimmons@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div id="yiv378587109">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
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:20 PM, azamin zainol abidin <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:azamin7@streamyx.com">azamin7@streamyx.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><br></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>