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- Ancient Greek · derived fromΓόριλλαι“Gorillai (a tribe of hairy women)”
- English todaygorilla
From Ancient Greek Γόριλλαι (Górillai, “Gorillai (a tribe of hairy women)”), described by Hanno the Navigator, a Carthaginian navigator and possible visitor to the area that later became Sierra Leone; the Greek word is likely from Punic, and ultimately from an African language.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.