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Chapter 1 Flashcards

1
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Appetite

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Latin verb appeto = seek,desire

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2
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Apple

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Old English aeppel; cf. apfel

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Apricot

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Latin adjective, praecoquum(early ripening)

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Avocado

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Spanish aguacate (Nahuatl ahuacatal = testicle)

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5
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Beef

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French boef (Latin bid,bovis = cow)

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Bread

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Latin panis > French pain, Italian pane, Spanish pan

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Cake

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Middle English kake;cf. Icelandic kaka, German kuchen, Dutch coek. Cookie is a diminutive form of coek.

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Carrot

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French carotte(< Latin carota< Greek karoton)

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Cheese

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Latin caseus

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Chicken

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Germanic chiken

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11
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Chocolate

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Nahuatl chocolatl

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Coffee

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Turkish kahve (< Arabic qahwah)
cf. French cafè(coffee shop), and cafeteria
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13
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Cuisine

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French kitchen; cookery

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14
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Curry

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Tamil kari (sauce)

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15
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Dessert

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French desservir (to clear the table )

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16
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Fruit

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Latin fruor = enjoy

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17
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Lettuce

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Latin lactuca

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18
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Meat

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Old English mete

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19
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Menu

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French detailed list (Latin minutus = small )

20
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Onion

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Latin unio(pearl)

21
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Palate

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Latin palatum = roof of the mouth

22
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Pasta

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Latin pasta(dough)(< Greek pastos = sprinkled). Originally pasta was a kind of porridge sprinkled with salt.

23
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Pea

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Latin pisum (cf. Italian pisello, French pois)

24
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Pie

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Middle English pie (shallow pit) < Old French pho’s < Latin puleus (well)

25
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Pizza

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Italian pizza < derivation unclear but perhaps Latin placenta (cake)

26
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Potato

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Spanish patata (

27
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Poultry

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Middle French poulet( Latin pullus = young of any animal ); cf. Spanish and Italian pollo

28
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Pretzel

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German bretzel(< Latin bracellus = bracelet)

29
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Radish

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Old English raedic (Latin radix = root )

30
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Restaurant

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Latin restauro (restore)

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Rice

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Old French ris (

32
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Salad

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French salade < Latin salata (salted)

33
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Salmon

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Latin salmon , salmonis = salmon

34
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Spaghetti

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Italian spago(cord,rope)

35
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Linguini

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Latin lingua( tongue)

36
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Spinach

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Old Spanish espinaca (

37
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Squash

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Narragansett Native American askutasquash (“thing eaten green”)

38
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Tea

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Chinese t’e (Amoy dialect); the more common Chinese word is the mandarin ch’a

39
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Tomato

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Spanish tomate(

40
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Vegetable

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Latin vegēo(grow)

41
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Vodka

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Russian voda (water)

42
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Whiskey

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Gaelic usqebaugh(“ the water of life”)

43
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Wine

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Latin vinum ( cf. French vin, Italian and Spanish vino)

44
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Brother

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Greek phrater

Latin frater

45
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-chester

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Latin castra, a military camp

46
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Literally, affectionate; an ardent fan

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aficionado(Spanish)

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