The story
- English · derived fromboard
- Japanese · borrowed fromボール“board”
- English todaybooru
Reborrowed from Japanese ボール (bōru, “board”), itself from English board. Alternatively, an abbreviation of the term Danbooru (from Japanese 段ボール, danbōru, “corrugated cardboard”), the name of a particular imageboard website that uses an image of a brown cardboard box as its logo.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.