Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·Indigenous languages ·1750s
Succotash
from msíckquatash
- Meaning
- A dish of stewed corn and lima beans.
- Source word
- msíckquatash
- Route into English
- Narragansett *msíckquatash* (boiled corn kernels) → English via 17th-century New England. The beans were added later; the original was just cooked maize.
- Arrived
- 1750s
From Indigenous languages
A loose group: Nahuatl, Taino, Algonquian, Guugu Yimithirr, and others. Colonial contact produced many loans; the speakers were often systematically dispossessed of the land the loanwords described.
English borrows.
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