Etymology

okoume

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Today it means: Aucoumea klaineana, an African hardwood. Full definition →

Bantu ← French okoumé
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromokoumé
  2. Bantu · borrowed from
  3. English todayokoume

Borrowed from certain Gabonese Bantu (Cf. Myene okumé, Viya okumé, Tsogo okumé) via French okoumé.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.