• bunnygirl [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    from what I can find peeking through the etymology research linked on Dutch Wiktionary, they are, but not directly

    In Dutch it came from a combination of the already existing insult ‘kackerlacker’ and the Portuguese word ‘cacalacca’, coming from the Arawak (?) ‘kakalaka’.
    I don’t speak Spanish so I can’t look at the Spanish etymology really, but the Dutch etymologiebank does mention that the Spanish most likely originates from either the Portuguese or the original Carribean language