When I travelled to the Philippines, I was amazed at how sausages were called "longganitsa", which is connected to how they're called not in Italian, but in the

When I travelled to the Philippines, I was amazed at how sausages were called "longganitsa", which is connected to how they're called not in Italian, but in the half-dying northern Italian dialect my grandparents spoke, "luganega". Turns out it comes from Latin "lucanica", i.e. referring to its origin in the southern Italian region of Lucania. From Latin it went into Spanish, and from Spanish to Filipino during colonization. I also found the same word in Greek.