English
trepang
Trepang comes from Malay teripang ‘sea cucumber’.
- Malaymodernteripang‘sea cucumber’
- Englishearliest quotation 1988trepang
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
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- Malaymodernteripang‘sea cucumber’
- Englishearliest quotation 1988trepang
Earliest quotation: 1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked: “There had been a drop in the mother-of-pearl shell…”
Every English word from Malay teripang
Today it means
noun Synonym of sea cucumber.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Malay teripang / trepang