Where does “Bikini” come from?

Bikini is an English word borrowed from French bikini, which was coined after the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands where nuclear weapons testing occurred in 1946.

Ancestry of “Bikini”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	French	Bikini	—
2	German	Bikini	A bikini, scanty two-piece bathing suit, named...
3	Marshallese	Pikinni	—
4	Marshallese	pik	a plane surface; a layer; a stratum
5	Marshallese	pikpik	—

Words derived from “Bikini”

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Bikini
bikinied
bikini jeans
microkini
bikinilike
bikiniless
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比基尼
ビキニ
bikini
bikini
비키니
บิกินี

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