The story
- Swahili · borrowed fromsokwe“chimpanzee, non-human hominid”
- English todaysoko
Perhaps from Swahili sokwe (“chimpanzee, non-human hominid”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
soko
Today it means: A species of African ape, supposedly a variety of the chimpanzee. Full definition →
Swahili sokwe