The root of ananas is Sanskrit. That's why you find it in so many languages. As my brother (archeologist/linguist, reads the latter) says: "Take a time machin

The root of ananas is Sanskrit. That's why you find it in so many languages. As my brother (archeologist/linguist, reads the latter) says: "Take a time machine and travel to a market on the Indian subcontinent, a thousand years back. Ask a fruit vendor for ananāsa/anāsa. You will get a pineapple." Edit: Pineapples were introduced to India by Portuguese in 1548 AD. Edit: Kindly ignore the initial claim. It's BS. :) (the time machine claim would still hold though). The word comes from Portugese/Spanish, the origin is 'nanas' which the Tupi people in Brazil used [1]. So the actual origin is from the Tupi-Guarani linguistic families [2]. [1] https://termcoord.eu/2016/08/pineapple-or-ananas/ https://termcoord.eu/2016/08/pineapple-or-ananas/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupi_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupi_people