Etymology

konzo

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Today it means: An epidemic paralytic disease associated with excessive consumption of cassava, which contains cyanide. Full definition →

yaf ← French konzo
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromkonzo
  2. yaf · derived from
  3. English todaykonzo

From Yaka [Term?], via French konzo.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.