Etymology

fonio

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Today it means: Digitaria exilis, a cereal cultivated in western Africa; white fonio Full definition →

French fonio ← Wolof foño
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The story

  1. Wolof · derived fromfoño
  2. French · borrowed fromfonio
  3. English todayfonio

From French fonio, from Wolof foño.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.