Etymograph

English

kangaroo route

Kangaroo route comes from English kangaroo ‘marsupial associated with Australia and with…’.

  1. English1500–presentkangaroo‘marsupial associated with Australia and with Qantas’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1980kangaroo route

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

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  1. English1500–presentkangaroo‘marsupial associated with Australia and with Qantas’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1980kangaroo route

Earliest quotation: 1980, International Aeronautic Federation, Interavia: “The old first class in the nose of the…”

A compound of kangaroo ‘marsupial associated with Australia and with…’ + route

Guugu Yimidhirr gangurru ‘eastern grey kangaroo’

English kangaroo

Latin rupta via ‘a path made by force’

Old French rote ‘route’

Middle English route

English route

Every English word from English kangaroo

Today it means

noun An air route between the United Kingdom and Australia via Asia, especially that route flown by Qantas.

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