Where does “flamingo” come from?
flamingo (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Portuguese flamingo, from Spanish flamenco, from Old Occitan flamenc, from Latin flamma, from Latin flāgrāre, from Latin frāgrō, from Proto-Italic frāgrāō, from Proto-Indo-European bʰreh₂gro- — to smell.
flamingo (Norwegian Bokmål): a flamingo
Ancestry of “flamingo”, step by step