Where the Romanian word “maimuță” comes from
Of unknown origin.
- DEX ’98 says
Cf. ngr. maimú, tc. maymun.
→ Unknown origin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Greek (a different language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Greek μαϊμού ← Ottoman Turkish میمون ← Arabic مَيْمُون
- In film dialogue
- 30 times per million words · number 1,965 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 14 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 3.7 8.3 3.6 8.4 7.2
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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