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It can be both. This word is old enough that it was significantly affected by the evolution of languages. But since some non-Indo-European languages have words
by samus 5y ago
It can be both. This word is old enough that it was significantly affected by the evolution of languages. But since some non-Indo-European languages have words that sound similar (the Chinese ones, in my uneducated opinion), it could indeed initially have been a Wanderwort.