Editing Gecko (section)

== Etymology ==
The [[Neo-Latin]] ''gekko'' and [[English language|English]] 'gecko' stem from [[Indonesian language|Indonesian]]-[[Malaysian language|Malaysian]] ''gēkoq'',<ref name="OED">{{Cite OED|term=gecko|id=77283|access-date=7 February 2024}} Earlier version first published in New English Dictionary, 1898.</ref> a [[Malay language|Malay]] word borrowed from [[Javanese language|Javanese]],<ref name="Wilkinson">{{Cite encyclopedia |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-60272771/view?partId=nla.obj-435905740#page/n346/ |title=ge'kok |dictionary=A Malay-English dictionary (romanised) |last=Wilkinson |first=Richard James |publisher=Salavopoulos & Kinderlis |location=Mytilene, Greece |date=1932 |volume=I |page=337 |via=TROVE, [[National Library of Australia]] |access-date=2022-12-10 |archive-date=2022-12-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221210165431/https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-60272771/view?partId=nla.obj-435905740#page/n346/ |url-status=live }}</ref> from ''tokek'', which [[onomatopoeia|imitates]] the sounds that some species like ''[[Tokay gecko]]'' make.<ref name=OED/><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Siti Zaleha Mat Diah<!-- exactly as written in journal --> |author2=Rosli Hashim<!-- exactly as written in journal --> |author3=Yong Hoi Sen<!-- exactly as written in journal --> |author4=Daicus Belabut<!-- exactly as written in journal --> |author5=Syuhadah Dzarawi N.<!-- exactly as written in journal --> |author6=Lim Boo Liat<!-- exactly as written in journal --> |title=Preliminary Survey of Lizards of Pantai Melawi, Bachok, Kelantan, Malaysia |journal=Malaysian Journal of Science |date=2010 |volume=29 |issue=special issue |pages=117–120 |doi=10.22452/mjs.vol29nosp.13 |url=https://ejournal.um.edu.my/index.php/MJS/article/view/7338 |access-date=11 December 2022 |language=en |issn=2600-8688 |doi-access=free |archive-date=10 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221210165426/https://ejournal.um.edu.my/index.php/MJS/article/view/7338 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{rp|120}}<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Marcellini |first1=Dale |title=Acoustic and Visual Display Behavior of Gekkonid Lizards |url=https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/17/1/251/172256 |journal=American Zoologist |date=February 1977 |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=251–260 |doi=10.1093/icb/17.1.251 |doi-access=free |access-date=2023-01-07 |archive-date=2023-01-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127025130/https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/17/1/251/172256 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{rp|253}}