Where does “orangutang” come from?
orangutang (Swedish) comes from English orangutan, from Malay Orang Utan, from Dutch orang-oetan, from Malay orang hutan, from Indonesian hutan, from Malay hutan, from Proto-Malayic hutan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian qutan — scrubland; bush.
orangutang (Swedish): orangutan
Ancestry of “orangutang”, step by step