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Where does “sagú” come from?

sagú (Spanish) comes from Malay sagu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sagu.

sagú (Spanish): arrowroot

Definitions

  1. arrowroot

Ancestry of “sagú”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malaysagusago
2Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*sagu—
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