Food & drink

avocado

Nahuatl āhuacatl became Spanish aguacate, which Spanish speakers reshaped into avocado, a word that already meant 'advocate, lawyer'; English took the reshaped form, and the 20th-century avocado trade carried it to Japan, Israel and beyond.

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1520Classical Nahuatl

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