Where does “dugong” come from?
dugong (Norwegian Nynorsk) comes from English dugong, from Tagalog dugong, from Cebuano dugong, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duyuŋ.
dugong (Norwegian Nynorsk): a dugong
Ancestry of “dugong”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | dugong | A plant-eating aquatic marine mammal, of the... |
| 2 | Tagalog | dugong | dugong |
| 3 | Cebuano | dugong | a dugong |
| 4 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | *duyuŋ | — |