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Interestingly - we call turkey, turkey because it came from Turk traders.
The French call it Dinde - as in Poisson D'Inde - literally Indian Chicken - because it was supposed to come from India.
The Dutch call it kalkoen, which is Dutch for Calicut, an Indian port - again where it was supposedly from.
And the Spanich word for turkey is pavo - which was originally a peacock (peacock is now pavo real).
Just a bit of Friday afternoon linguistics for you.
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