Flamingo

[manielombaard]

According to the Collins English Dictionary:

from Spanish: like a gipsy, literally: Fleming, from Middle Dutch "Vlaminc" Fleming.

According to the Websters Third International Dictionary:

Spanish: Fleming, Flemish, buxom and ruddy, resembling a Gypsy, being in Gypsy style, gaudy, from Middle Dutch "Vlaminc" Fleming.
 
According to the Duden:

spanisch "flamenco", eigentlich = flämisch; (andalusischer) Zigeuner < mittelniederländisch "Vlaminc" = Flame)

(but flamingo:

Collins:

from Portuguese "flamengo", from Provençal "flamenc"; from Latin "flamma" flame + Germanic suffix "-ing" denoting descent from or membership of.

Webster:

Portuguese, from Spanish "flamenco", probably from Old Provencal "flamenc", from "flama" flame, blaze, fire [from Latin "flamma"] + "-enc", of Germanic origin.

Duden:

spanisch "flamenco", vielleicht zu lateinisch "flamma" = Flamme [wegen des "geflammten" Gefieders].)


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