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Not exactly a Chinese dialect, but Vietnamese calls tomatoes "cà chua": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/c%C3%A0_chua https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/c%C3%A0_chua
by taneliv 26d ago
Not exactly a Chinese dialect, but Vietnamese calls tomatoes "cà chua": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/c%C3%A0_chua https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/c%C3%A0_chua .
- dotancohen 26d agoAre the Vietnamese and Chinese languages related? Or perhaps one of the two cultures was introduced to that fruit by the other, and thus preserved the name?
- avadodin 26d agoNot related at all in recent history and I have no insight on the etymology links but Vietnamese used to be written in a mix of original Vietnamese Chinese-style characters before they changed to a Latin alphabet with Colonialism and Communism so there was definitely contact.
- dotancohen 26d agoThank you
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- shawn_w 25d agoChina ruled Vietnam for a thousand years (111 BC–939 AD) so I'm sure there was some linguistic cross pollination. Though tomatoes come around long after that period...