monkey

Origin: : * May be derived from , * or borrowed from , the name of the son of Martin the Ape in Reynard the Fox (which may represent an unattested colloquial , *moneken), itself of uncertain origin: ** Possibly derived from a term represented by Late or earlier , originally Monnekin, the name of a monkey in ''Li Dis d'Entendement. Compare also and . *** The French terms may have been borrowed from , from , itself a shortening of mamona, variant of maimón, from ). *** However, may alternatively be unrelated to the other terms, instead being a borrowing of Early , and if so monkey'' is a doublet of m. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).