July 4, 2008: Friday Awwww

Sundae · 07-04-2008, 09:09 AM

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.

07-04-2008, 09:09 AM	#23
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	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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