Which common food item has its named derived from the Hindi word for 'thing'?

shazy95

Cheese. I know Urdu which is close to Hindi. Aug 25 08, 6:41 PM

tragic_flawed

right- chez is the Hindi word. Aug 25 08, 8:34 PM

zbeckabee

No mention of Urdu or Hindi: O.E. cyse, from W.Gmc. *kasjus, from L. caseus "cheese," from PIE base *kwat- "to ferment, become sour." Earliest refs. would be to compressed curds of milk used as food; pressed or molded cheeses with rinds are 14c. Fr. fromage is from M.L. formaticum, from L. forma "shape, form, mold." As a photographer's word to make subjects hold a smile, it is attested from 1930, but in a reminiscence of schoolboy days, which suggests an earlier use. Cheeseburger first attested 1938. Cheesecake (c.1440) is first recorded 1934 in slang sense of "photograph of sexy young women." To make cheeses was a schoolgirls' amusement (1835) of wheeling rapidly so one's petticoats blew out in a circle then dropping down so they came to rest inflated and resembling a wheel of cheese; hence, used figuratively for "a deep curtsey." The origin of the word cheese appears to be the Latin caseus, from which the modern word casein is closely derived. The earliest source is probably from the proto-Indo-European root *kwat-, which means "to ferment, become sour". In the English language, the modern word cheese comes from chese (in Middle English) and cīese or cēse (in Old English). Similar words are shared by other West Germanic languages — West Frisian tsiis, Dutch kaas, German Käse, Old High German chāsi — all of which probably come from the reconstructed West-Germanic root *kasjus, which in turn is an early borrowing from Latin. The Latin word caseus is also the source from which are derived the Spanish queso, Portuguese queijo, Malay/Indonesian Language keju (a borrowing from the Portuguese word queijo), Romanian caş and Italian cacio. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=cheese&searchmode=none http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese#Etymology Aug 25 08, 8:51 PM

tragic_flawed

I found it in Shipley's under "KUO" " SKR. katha Persian Chiz what thing, hence (the big) cheese... Latin - caseus, casein.." Let me see if I can find an online source....no the online source is highly abridged/ Aug 25 08, 9:24 PM