Where does “orangoutan” come from?
orangoutan (French) 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.
Ancestry of “orangoutan”, step by step