Etymology

kumiho

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Korean 구미호
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The story

  1. Korean · borrowed from구미호“nine-tailed fox”
  2. English todaykumiho

Borrowed from Korean 구미호 (gumiho, “nine-tailed fox”).

Words from the same roots

Korean구미호 all →

gumiho

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.