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orang utan · Malay
noun · Malay
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the great ape. Historical source-stage form associated with orangutan; the journey preserves the source's qualifications.
Date not yet researched — The inspected passage does not establish a word-specific date for this source stage.
Location not yet researched — No defensible word-specific location was established in the inspected lexical passage; no origin site is inferred.
orang utan is the inspected source form associated with the historical source stage for English orangutan. orangutan(n.) opening paragraph
Orangutan entered English in the 1690s from French and directly from Dutch orang-outang, from Malay orang utan, literally man of the woods; the source notes that Europeans may have misunderstood an earlier Malay expression. orangutan(n.) opening paragraph
orang-outang · Dutch
noun · Dutch
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the great ape. An intermediary form named by the inspected lexical account; it is not treated as an exhaustive transmission record.
Date not yet researched — The inspected passage does not establish a word-specific date for this source stage.
Location not yet researched — No defensible word-specific location was established in the inspected lexical passage; no origin site is inferred.
Orangutan entered English in the 1690s from French and directly from Dutch orang-outang, from Malay orang utan, literally man of the woods; the source notes that Europeans may have misunderstood an earlier Malay expression. orangutan(n.) opening paragraph
orangutan · English
noun · English
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the great ape. The English form and selected sense are represented from the inspected lexical account; unsupported pronunciation and location are left unresolved.
c. 1690s · English orangutan — A source-reported written-use period; not the date of coinage, oral transmission, or every later sense.
Location not yet researched — No defensible word-specific location was established in the inspected lexical passage; no origin site is inferred.
Orangutan entered English in the 1690s from French and directly from Dutch orang-outang, from Malay orang utan, literally man of the woods; the source notes that Europeans may have misunderstood an earlier Malay expression. orangutan(n.) opening paragraph
The inspected source supports the selected orangutan sense: the great ape. orangutan(n.) opening paragraph
orang utan → orang-outang: borrowing, qualified. The Malay composition is reported, but the source preserves a material alternative about whether the original expression denoted the ape or forest people. orangutan(n.) opening paragraph
orang-outang → orangutan: borrowing, qualified. The Malay composition is reported, but the source preserves a material alternative about whether the original expression denoted the ape or forest people. orangutan(n.) opening paragraph