Koror

English

Etymology

Ultimately from an earlier form of Palauan Oreor (“Koror”), which started with /q/ or /x/ in earlier Palauan (cf. the form Goreor recorded by the 1908-10 Hamburg South Sea Expedition).[1]

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Proper noun

Koror

  1. the former capital and largest city of Palau

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References

  1. ^ Osamu Sakiyama (10 August 1995) “Decipherment and Studies of Early Palauan Word-Lists Collection since the Eighteenth Century”, in Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology, volume 20, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, page 10
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