Etymology

perlemoen

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Afrikaans perlemoen ← Dutch perlemoer
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The story

  1. Dutch · derived fromperlemoer“mother-of-pearl”
  2. Afrikaans · borrowed fromperlemoen
  3. English todayperlemoen

Borrowed from Afrikaans perlemoen, from Dutch perlemoer (“mother-of-pearl”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.