Food & drink

toddy

Palm wine tapped from the palmyra, Hindi tāṛī from tāṛ 'palmyra', reached English as 'taddy' in 1611; in Scotland the name moved to a hot mix of whisky, sugar and water, which America adopted as the hot toddy, while Kerala still drinks palm toddy in its toddy shops.

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The road to English

From Hindi to Urdu

From English to Scots, American English

From English to Indian English

300 BCESanskrit

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