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Where does “guna” come from?

guna (Portuguese) comes from English goon, from Japanese 呉音, from Japanese 呉, from Japanese 暮れる — get dark, for night to fall; for the season to...

guna (Portuguese): a street thug whose major criminal offence is...

Definitions

  1. a street thug whose major criminal offence is...

Ancestry of “guna”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishgoonA thug; a usually muscular henchman with little...
2Japanese呉音The pronunciation of Chinese hanzi characters...
3Japanese呉Chinese, from China; the Wú region of China;...
4Japanese暮れるget dark, for night to fall; for the season to...
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