Food & drink

butter

Greeks and Romans cooked with olive oil and saw butter as a barbarian food; Herodotus describes the Scythians making it. The Greek name 'cow-cheese' passed through Latin to the Germanic dairy peoples, Yiddish puter, and through English to Japan and the Pacific.

Weakest linkCertain

The road to English

From Ancient Greek to Modern Greek

From Latin to Old High German, Middle High German, German

From Middle High German to Yiddish

From Latin to Middle Dutch, Dutch, Afrikaans

From Latin to Old French, French

From Old French to Italian

From English to Japanese

From English to Korean

From English to Fijian

430 BCEAncient Greek

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.

The road to English

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