Where does “órang-útan” come from?
órang-útan (Irish) 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.
órang-útan (Irish): orangutan
Ancestry of “órang-útan”, step by step