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From Portugueseflamengo(“flamingo”) and Spanishflamenco(“flamingo”), which were adapted from Catalanflamenc(“flamingo”), of disputed ultimate origin in this sense.[1] All three forms are used adjectivally as an ethnonym meaning 'Flemish' (of Germanic origin, cognate to EnglishFleming); Spanish flamenco refers also to a dance type. Compare also Frenchflamant(“flamingo”).
The bird's name may derive from the ethnonym by an association of a ruddy complexion or hair color with the Flemings;[2] this etymology is supported by Corominas.[3] (In Spanish, flamenco can be used colloquially as an adjective meaning "robust, healthy-looking".[4])
Alternatively, either the dance flamenco,[5] the bird name or both come from attaching the same Germanic-derived ending found in the ethnonym to the distinct root of Latinflamma(“flame”): i.e. Catalan flamenc has been analyzed as flama(“flame”) + -enc. Compare also Portuguese-engo.
1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 266:
After Nakuru the light remains only long enough to see the Lake Nakuru, away to the south, with its fringe of pink flamingos, and as the darkness falls the old main line to Kisumu branches to the left.
A deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.
“flamingo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02