Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks to great Quetzalcoatl and the sacred Axalotl for the gift of Chocolotl! - -- Jim - http://www.hemenway.com Mark Rabiner wrote: <snip> > > That port-a-poty looks just like my last refrigerator. > The exact avocado guacamole color! > > by the way. I wasn't sure on the spelling so i did a quick check and > got this: > > WORD HISTORY: The history of avocado takes us back to the Nahuatl (the > language of the Aztecs) word ahuacatl, “fruit of the avocado tree” or > “testicle.” The word ahuacatl was compounded with others, as in > ahuacamolli, meaning “avocado soup or sauce,” from which the > Spanish-Mexican word guacamole derives. In trying to pronounce ahuacatl, > the Spanish who found the fruit and its Nahuatl name in Mexico came up > with aguacate, but other Spanish speakers substituted the form avocado > for the Nahuatl word because ahuacatl sounded like the early Spanish > word avocado (now abogado), meaning “lawyer.” In borrowing the Spanish > avocado, first recorded in English in 1697 in the compound avogato pear > (with a spelling that probably reflects Spanish pronunciation), we have > lost many of the traces of the more interesting Nahuatl word. > > Mark Rabiner > Portland, Oregon USA > http://www.rabinergroup.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html