The story
- Malagasy · derived fromkoa
- French · borrowed fromcoua
- English todaycoua
From French coua, from Malagasy koa, an onomatopoeia for its cry.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
coua
Today it means: A terrestrial bird of the genus Coua, in the cuckoo family. Full definition →
French coua ← Malagasy koa