The story
- Indonesian · borrowed frompulau Komodo
- English todayKomodo
Borrowed from Indonesian pulau Komodo (literally “Komodo Island”). The name is from the island's indigenous (Austronesian) name in Komodo, Tana Modo (“the land of Modo”), used by the native Ata Modo people.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.