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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | Date: 1996

dengue fever epidemic in E. Africa, etc. XIX. — W. Indian Sp. — Swahili denga, dinga. Identified with Sp. dengue fastidiousness, prudery.


© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996.

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