Words that come from Proto-Austronesian “quCaN”

53 words across 35 languages descend from Proto-Austronesian quCaN — including orangutan, ranga, orangoutang, orangutang, hutan, qutan, uta, orangutan.

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English (6)

Malay (6)

Indonesian (5)

Greek (4)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Proto-Malayic (1)

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (1)

Maori (1)

Catalan (1)

Italian (1)

Turkish (1)

Faroese (1)

Swedish (1)

Hawaiian (1)

Japanese (1)

Galician (1)

Hungarian (1)

Armenian (1)

French (1)

Korean (1)

Russian (1)

Esperanto (1)

Irish (1)

Bau Bidayuh (1)

Romanian (1)

German (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Spanish (1)

Dutch (1)

Proto-Malayo-Chamic (1)

Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan (1)

Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi (1)

Proto-Oceanic (1)

Proto-Polynesian (1)