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Where does “галиматья” come from?

галиматья (Russian) comes from French galimatias — nonsense, gobbledygook, galimatias.

галиматья (Russian): gobbledygook

Definitions

  1. gobbledygook

Ancestry of “галиматья”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchgalimatiasnonsense, gobbledygook, galimatias
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