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Where does “galimatyáš” come from?

galimatyáš (Czech) comes from French galimatias — nonsense, gobbledygook, galimatias.

galimatyáš (Czech): mess, disorder

Definitions

  1. mess, disorder

Ancestry of “galimatyáš”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchgalimatiasnonsense, gobbledygook, galimatias
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