Can somebody good at English explain to me how the word "monkey"

Nope.

Donke-
Monke-


Flunk-
Fann-
Trann-

The E in monkey makes it so that you can't rearrange it into monkies. It must be monkeys.

t. professional English speaker

>>7748434
To make it harder for people in the community to speak English good and get good jobs.

>English
>explain
That's not how it works.

Generally depends on if the word came from Latin or German.

Most words that came from French conjugate like their Latin roots, "-ies" or "-ioin." If I had to guess monkey stayed German somehow. Because the peasants in England during the Norman occupation didn't bother to learn French, most animal and verbs stayed German.

>monkies
>not Monkees

>>7748695
>>7748434
Well curiousity got the best of me and I looked it up. Apparently, there is a decent amount of debate about the origin.

http://blog.oup.com/2013/01/monkey-word-origin-etymology/