Etymology

vansire

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Today it means: An ichneumon, Atilax paludinosus (syn. Herpestes galera), native to Africa and Madagascar. It is reddish brown or dark brown, grizzled with white. Full definition →

French vansire ← Malagasy vontsira
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The story

  1. Malagasy · derived fromvontsira
  2. French · borrowed fromvansire
  3. English todayvansire

Borrowed from French vansire, from Malagasy vontsira.

Words from the same roots

Malagasyvontsira all →

vontsira

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.