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    In what language does "maize" stand for "bread"?

    Question #109625. Asked by flem-ish. (Oct 09 09 2:49 PM)


    star_gazer

    		The word maize comes from the Taino language? Taino was the dialect spoken by the Arawaks, the Caribbean people who first greeted Columbus in 1492. The term maize became a loan word in Spanish and subsequently entered other European languages. The word corne, spelled today as corn, comes from the old English dialect term for grain and specifically is used to designate wheat. When the English-speaking Pilgrims encountered maize for the first time, they called it Indian Corne because they did not know or recognize the plant, but they knew it was a grain.

    http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/food/panl1ukno.html

    Oct 09 09, 3:30 PM
    flem-ish

    		True, but..There is a European language in which "maize" does not refer to "corn" but to "bread".

    Oct 09 09, 4:10 PM
    Zbeckabee

    		In Latvian, maize means bread:

    http://www.latvianstuff.com/Nouns.html

    http://www.geocities.com/valtersf.geo/translate/en-lv/maize-latvian.html

    http://www.andes.missouri.edu/Personal/DMartinez/Diffusion/msg00137.html

    Oct 09 09, 4:16 PM

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