kangourou
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English kangaroo; ultimately from Guugu Yimidhirr gangurru.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kangourou m (plural kangourous)
Synonyms
[edit](hoodie): pull à capuche, sweat à capuche, hoodie, coton-ouaté
Descendants
[edit]- → Basque: kanguru
- → Corsican: canguru
- → Italian: canguro
- → Khmer: កង់ហ្គូរូ (kɑngguuruu)
- → Polish: kangur
- → Romanian: cangur
- → Seychellois Creole: kangourou
- → Turkish: kanguru
Further reading
[edit]- “kangourou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Seychellois Creole
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French kangourou, English kangaroo.
Noun
[edit]kangourou
- kangaroo
- Ou lizye i ron parey lizye kongoulou.
- Your eyes are round, like the eyes of a kangaroo.
References
[edit]- Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français
- Seychelles Creole vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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