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India has many languages other than Hindi. A similarly spelled word comes from Urdu for example https://www.etymonline.com/word/khaki https://www.etymonline.co
by zeckalpha 5y ago
India has many languages other than Hindi.
A similarly spelled word comes from Urdu for example https://www.etymonline.com/word/khaki https://www.etymonline.com/word/khaki
- DonaldFisk 5y agoThat might conceivably explain the "khazi" spelling but its meaning is unrelated and in any case it isn't the derivation of the word "carsey". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari
- zeckalpha 5y agoSure, I just meant you can’t rule out the theory because you talked to a Hindi speaker.