Etymology

sotong

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Today it means: Squid; cuttlefish. Full definition →

Malay sotong
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The story

  1. Malay · borrowed fromsotong“squid”
  2. English todaysotong

Borrowed from Malay sotong (“squid”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.