The story
- French · derived fromsecouer“to shake”
- English todaysoukous
From French secouer (“to shake”).
Words from the same roots
Frenchsecouer all →
zouk
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
soukous
Today it means: A genre of African popular music, resembling rumba, that originated in the Congo region in the 1930s. Full definition →
French secouer