Why does the Indonesian and Japanese language have some words also used in English?
Actually, “ekonomi” and “bisnis” almost certainly come from English. It’s not at all implausible to think that, for thousands of years, the Japanese and Indonesians lacked words for economy and business. Are you aware that the word “economy” first appeared in the English language in 1530? Then, it did not come to mean “the wealth and resources of a country” until the mid 17th century. For centuries before that, there was no word for “economy”. Then, the word “business” existed since the 14th century, but wasn’t used to mean a commercial engagement until 1727. As for orange, it’s also extremely possible that the Japanese word “orengi” has the same origins as the English word “orange”– it doesn’t come from Dutch, but from the Sanskrit word for the fruit which also has cognates in Arabic and Persian. Orange doesn’t appear in English until the 14th century. You would think that the English would have a word for such a common color before then, right? Well they didn’t. Before the introduct
