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Are we talking about the name of a fruit that comes from the same place where the name was borrowed from? If so, why is that surprising?
by ithkuil 5y ago
Are we talking about the name of a fruit that comes from the same place where the name was borrowed from? If so, why is that surprising?
- bradrn 5y agoYes, we are. The only surprising thing about this is that one wouldn’t prima facie expect a loan into any European language from a New Guinean language before the Age of Exploration, and this particular word went through more intermediate languages than usual. Other than those features, there’s nothing particularly unusual about this.