Where does “orang-outan” come from?
orang-outan (French) comes from English orangutan, 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 — scrubland; bush.
orang-outan (French): orangutan
Ancestry of “orang-outan”, step by step
Words derived from “orang-outan”