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.

Bikini (English): Bikini atoll

Definitions

  1. Bikini atoll

Ancestry of “Bikini”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FrenchBikiniBikini atoll
2GermanBikiniA bikini, scanty two-piece bathing suit, named...
3MarshallesePikinni—
4Marshallesepika plane surface; a layer; a stratum
5Marshallesepikpik—

Words derived from “Bikini”

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