Etymology

tsutsugamushi

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Today it means: A form of typhus caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi and transmitted by chiggers. Full definition →

Japanese つつがむし
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed fromつつがむし“chigger”
  2. English todaytsutsugamushi

From Japanese つつがむし (tsutsugamushi, “chigger”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.