Where does “orangutang” come from?
orangutang (Faroese) comes from Malay Orang Utan, from Dutch orang-oetan, from Malay orang hutan, from Indonesian hutan, from Malay hutan, from Proto-Malayic hutan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian qutan, from Proto-Austronesian quCaN — scrubland; bush.
orangutang (Faroese): orangutan
Ancestry of “orangutang”, step by step