February 2012
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Origin of the word "cash"
cash, n.2
[ad. (ultimately) Tamil kāsu (‘or perhaps some Konkani form of it’), name of a small coin, or weight of money:—Skr. karsha ‘a weight of silver or gold equal to 1/400 of a tulā’ (Williams); Singhalese kāsi coin. The early Portuguese writers represented the native word by cas, casse, caxa, the Fr. by cas, the Eng. by cass: the existing Pg. caixa and Eng. cash are due to a natural...
