The story
- Palauan · borrowed fromOreor“Koror”
- English todayKoror
Ultimately from an earlier form of Palauan Oreor (“Koror”), which started with /q/ or /x/ in earlier Palauan (cf. the form Goreor recorded by the 1908-10 Hamburg South Sea Expedition).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.