Food's Travels
The journey from field to fork
Every dish has a story. These words traveled from distant harvests to your table, changing name and form at every border.
5996
Words
1321
Languages
6
Themes
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Latin725
Greek
461French307
Old English278
Italian206
Old French202
English152
Japanese134
Arabic120
German94
Spanish70
Korean53
Yiddish52
Sanskrit51
Persian48
Russian48
Malay47
Tamil39
Nahuatl39
Dutch35
Hebrew31
Hindi29
Quechua26
Māori24
Turkish22
Hawaiian22
Thai21
Tibetan21
Swahili19
Latin (from Greek)
18Amharic18
Yoruba18
Tagalog17
English from Old French
17Finnish16
Akkadian15
Georgian15
Zulu12
Irish12
Basque12
Dharug11
English from Latin
11Romani11
Welsh10
French (from Latin)
10Cantonese
8Italian (from Latin)
8English (origin uncertain)
8Greek (modern coinage)
8English (eponym)
8Arabic/Persian
7Greek via Latin
7Maori
7Javanese
7English from French
7Arabic / Urdu
7Latin (via Old French)
7Pali7
English (compound)
7English (American)
7Chinese
6Tupi6
French from Latin
6Lakota
6Malay/Javanese
5Sanskrit/Hindi
5French (place name)
5Greek (via Latin)
5Greek + Latin
5Old French (from Latin)
5Rapa Nui
5Modern Latin, named for a person
5Latin from Greek
5Brazilian Portuguese
5Guaraní
5Latin (modern coinage)
5Khmer
5English (coined)
4English (uncertain origin)
4Japanese from Chinese
4Spanish from Latin
4Ojibwe (Algonquian)
4French (eponym)
4Hindi / Sanskrit
4Dharug (Australian Aboriginal)
4English from French from Latin
4English from Old French from Latin
4English from Swahili (Bantu)
4Old French from Latin
4Turkic
4Latin/English
4English from Italian
4Tongan
4Burmese
4Pashto
4Mapudungun
4English from Arabic
3Sanskrit/Pali
3Hindi from Sanskrit
3Afrikaans from Dutch
3Powhatan (Algonquian)
3Venetian Italian
3Italian from Latin
3Arabic via Spanish
3Malay/Indonesian
3English from Taíno
3Spanish (from Latin)
3Yiddish (from Hebrew)
3Tahitian
3French (from Greek)
3Middle Dutch / Low German
3English (technical)
3Old Persian
3Hindi/Urdu from Persian
3Portuguese / Spanish
3Low German / Dutch
3Hindi (from Sanskrit)
3Modern Latin from Greek
3Romani (from Sanskrit)
3French from Italian
3Classical Chinese (Confucian)
3Dharug (Aboriginal Australian)
3Nyungar (Aboriginal Australian)
3Javanese / Malay
3Old Norse / Scandinavian
3Arabic / Persian / Urdu
3English (nautical)
3Babylonian (Akkadian)
3Lao3
Navajo
3Akan
3Malagasy
3Middle English (origin uncertain)
3Greek (modern coinage from ancient roots)
3Italian (Tuscan)
3Tagalog (Filipino)
3German (eponym)
3Samoan
3Modern Greek (coined)
3Fijian
3Ainu
3Haitian Creole
3Sámi
3Marshallese
3Nenets
3English from Hindi
2English from Dutch
2Spanish/Portuguese
2Taíno via Spanish
2Hindi/Marathi
2Nahuatl (Aztec)
2Kimbundu (Angola)
2Taino/Arawak
2Taino
2Greek from Phoenician
2Italian from Germanic
2French (from a person's name)
2English from Quechua
2English from Japanese from Chinese
2Spanish (diminutive)
2Greek from Turkish
2Italian (Venetian)
2Tagalog / Malay
2Kalaallisut (Greenlandic Inuit)
2Afrikaans (from Dutch)
2German (surname)
2Latin/Italian
2French (proper name)
2English (acronym)
2Old Church Slavonic
2Middle English / Old French
2English (neologism)
2Biblical Hebrew
2New Latin (from Greek)
2English (from Latin)
2English (personal name)
2Urdu / Persian
2Hindi/Urdu from Sanskrit
2English from Hindi (place name)
2English (scientific portmanteau)
2Scottish Gaelic / Irish
2Narragansett (Algonquian)
2English from Old French / Latin
2Vietnamese (from French)
2Amharic / Ge'ez
2Arabic (from Egyptian)
2English from Medieval Latin
2English (surname)
2French (surname)
2Classical Chinese (Daoist)
2Powhatan Algonquian (Virginia)
2Irish / Scottish Gaelic
2Malay / Indonesian
2Old Norse / Old Swedish
2Tupi (via Portuguese)
2Hawaiian / Proto-Polynesian
2Turkish / Persian
2Italian via French
2Japanese (from Chinese)
2Persian / Urdu
2Tamil / Sanskrit
2Dutch / German
2Malayalam / Tamil
2Thai/Lao
2Middle Low German
2Italian / French
2Ancient Greek (from Egyptian)
2Old French via Middle English
2Brazilian Portuguese from Tupi
2English from French, from Italian
2English (place name)
2Old English from Proto-Germanic
2Australian Aboriginal
2French zoological usage from an African source
2Urdu
2English (from French)
2Spanish from Taíno
2Igbo
2English (from Greek)
2Old French (origin uncertain)
2Italian (Sicilian)
2Akan (Twi)
2Ga (Ghanaian)
2Cherokee
2Maltese
2Aymara
2Greek/English
2Latin/Greek
2Oromo
2uncertain
2English/Latin
2Algonquian
2Arabic / Persian
2Latin/French
2Zulu (South African)
2English from multiple origins
1English from Nahuatl
1English from Tahitian/Samoan
1English from Tongan
1English from Persian/Hindi-Urdu
1English from Japanese/Chinese
1English from Persian/Arabic
1English from Arabic from Greek
1English from Hokkien Chinese
1English from Arabic/Persian/Sanskrit
1English from Malay/Kannada
1English from Persian
1Greek (place name)
1Yiddish from Hebrew
1Kongo/Kikongo
1Quechua via Spanish
1Hungarian from Serbian/Croatian from Latin
1Igbo (West African)
1Mongolic/Turkic
1Sanskrit via Hindi
1Tamil/Malayalam
1Hindi/Gujarati
1Russian from Siberian languages
1Hindi/Bengali
1Persian from Mongol
1Turkic/Mongol via Russian
1Sanskrit via Arabic and French
1Icelandic from Old Norse
1Old Norse/Icelandic
1Norwegian from Old Norse
1American English (disputed African origin)
1Fon/Ewe (West African)
1Kimbundu (Angolan)
1Czech (possibly from Polish)
1Polynesian (Oceanic)
1Greek (medical Latin coinage)
1Cantonese/Mandarin Chinese
1Gullah (from West African languages)
1Turkic (via Russian)
1Tamil/Hindi
1English (brand name)
1English (possibly from Wolof)
1Cantonese/Portuguese
1Tungusic (Evenki)
1Portuguese (from Chinese/Sanskrit)
1Russian (from Turkic/Mongolian)
1Dutch (from Old Norse)
1Swedish/Scandinavian
1Kongo/Spanish
1Lese (DRC)
1Bantu (various)
1Greek/Arabic
1Portuguese from Hindi/Bengali
1Portuguese from Greek
1Greek from Hebrew/Sanskrit
1Hebrew via Medieval Latin
1Ancient Greek (possibly pre-Greek)
1Medieval Latin/Italian
1Sanskrit via Persian and Arabic
1Spanish from Nahuatl
1Arabic (possibly from West African Wolof)
1German from Latin
1Spanish/Portuguese from Provençal/Germanic
1Portuguese/Spanish
1French from Tupi
1Italian/Basque
1Greek (coined 1789)
1Welsh (disputed)
1Italian (from a place name)
1Old French from Latin/Greek
1English (coined from Greek)
1Arabic via Italian
1Arabic from Greek
1Chinese (Cantonese)
1Korean from Japanese
1English from Hebrew
1English from Taíno/Arawakan
1Spanish/Río de la Plata
1English from Arabic/Turkish/Persian
1English from Arabic/Berber
1English (New Zealand marketing)
1English from Yiddish
1Japanese from Portuguese
1Taiwanese Mandarin
1Mexican Spanish (from a name)
1Portuguese via Indian English
1Russian (acronym)
1Medieval Latin from Arabic
1Latin via theology
1Russian (from Caucasian languages)
1Valencian/Catalan
1Hebrew from Egyptian
1Arabic via Turkish/Persian
1Tupi via Portuguese
1Algonquian (debated)
1Dhivehi (Maldivian)
1Portuguese (possibly from Hindi बरांडा)
1Malayalam (from Calicut)
1Inuit (Kalaallisut)
1Latin (from Etruscan)
1Algonquian (Mi'kmaq/Abenaki)
1Algonquian (Powhatan)
1Spanish via West African languages
1Medieval Italian
1Italian (from Germanic)
1Italian (from Arabic or Latin)
1Algonquian (Powhatan/Narragansett)
1Cherokee (personal name)
1Eastern Abenaki (Algonquian)
1Algonquian (Massachusett/Abenaki)
1Algonquian (Illinois/Miami)
1Sicilian/Italian
1Hungarian (from Turkic)
1Sinhala (via Portuguese/Spanish)
1American English (coined)
1English (RAF slang, origin unknown)
1Hindi (from Sanskrit via Portuguese)
1Aramaic (possibly Hebrew)
1French (possibly from Hebrew)
1Dutch (via Spanish and French)
1Hebrew (possibly from Akkadian)
1Mande (West African)
1English (from Crimean place name)
1English (pseudo-Latin, origin uncertain)
1Arabic (possibly from Greek)
1American English (Italian-American slang)
1French (from the Limousin region)
1Hebrew (via Greek and Latin)
1English (from a proper name)
1Spanish (from a literary character)
1English (from Hebrew via place name)
1Sanskrit (via Portuguese and Persian)
1Spanish (from Carib/Taino)
1English (from Irish surname)
1English (literary coinage)
1Latin (from Germanic tribal name)
1Greek (from Hebrew qanna'im)
1Greek (Greco-Egyptian)
1Neo-Latin (coined from Greek)
1French (from German/Dutch)
1English (from a surname)
1Italian (from Latin/Greek)
1English (medieval coinage)
1Greek (coined 1817)
1Greek (from Carian name)
1French / Italian
1American English (coined 1907)
1English (from literary character)
1Latin / Etruscan
1Lenape (Munsee Delaware)
1Aramaic
1American English (origin unknown)
1Ottoman Turkish / Arabic
1Arabic / Persian / Turkish
1Sanskrit/Persian
1Norman French
1Yolŋu (Yolngu Matha)
1Bantu (Kongo)
1Kimbundu / Haitian Creole
1Turkish/Arabic
1Welsh English
1Nenets (via Russian)
1English (from Irish/Joycean)
1Latin / Old French
1Algonquian (Powhatan/Renápe)
1Old Irish / Welsh
1Gaulish / Old Celtic
1Dutch/Middle Dutch
1Persian / Old Iranian
1Latin + Greek
1Gaulish via Latin
1French from Franco-Provençal
1English (calque from multiple indigenous languages)
1Afrikaans from Portuguese
1Persian/Tajik
1English (from Hindi/Persian)
1Akan (Asante/Ghana)
1Scottish English (possibly Old French)
1French (from Cambrai)
1Italian/French
1Late Latin (from Gaulish)
1Italian (Florentine)
1Middle Dutch / Middle English
1English (origin disputed)
1English (from Old French and Anglo-Norman)
1French/Italian (origin debated)
1Marshallese / French
1French (personal name)
1Gascon French
1Cree
1Russian (from Old Slavic)
1Italian / Latin
1Latin (via English)
1Middle English (from Old French)
1Italian (from Greek)
1Guaraní / Quechua
1Latin (from Greek, possibly from Egyptian)
1Greek / Latin
1French (from Savoyard dialect)
1German (Swiss dialect)
1Tswana (Setswana)
1Yoruba (via Hausa)
1Shona
1African American English (from Wolof)
1Modern Latin (from Greek)
1Anglo-French (from Latin)
1Old French (from Medieval Latin)
1English (from Middle English barre)
1Greek (coined 1788)
1New Latin (named for Pierre Magnol, 1703)
1Arabic (probable origin)
1Italian (from a Roman noble family name)
1New Latin (named 1789, for Louis Antoine de Bougainville)
1Greek (from akis, a point or thorn)
1New Latin (named 1753, for Georg Josef Kamel)
1New Latin (named 1821, for Stamford Raffles)
1English (Latin/scientific coinage)
1Modern Latin (scientific)
1Dutch / Portuguese
1Portuguese (from Malay)
1Portuguese (from West African)
1Pali / Sanskrit
1Sanskrit / Tibetan
1French (from Swiss dialect)
1Tibetan / Dzongkha
1Serbian/South Slavic
1Serbian/Croatian
1Czech/Slovak
1Russian (from Old Norse)
1Medieval Latin / Celtic
1Old Irish
1Irish English
1Ukrainian/Turkic
1Russian/Latin
1Massachusett (Algonquian)
1Massachusett / Narragansett (Algonquian)
1Mi'kmaq (Algonquian)
1Algonquian (Virginia Algonquian)
1Nuu-chah-nulth (Wakashan)
1Papuan Malay (via Malay)
1Arabic (via Malay/Tamil)
1Tswana (Bantu)
1Hawaiian / Maori
1Samoan / Proto-Polynesian
1Ottoman Turkish / Urdu (from Arabic)
1Latin / Hungarian military tradition
1Hungarian (personal name)
1Polish / Turkic origin
1English (disputed: possibly from Hungarian bocskai)
1Chinese (origin debated)
1Hokkien Chinese via Japanese
1Dutch / Middle Dutch
1Middle Dutch / Old Norse
1Malay (place name)
1Malay (from Tupi via Portuguese)
1Hindi / Malay
1Anglo-Indian English (from British slang, adopted into Hindi)
1Urdu / Hindi (from Persian, from Arabic)
1Urdu / Persian (from Arabic)
1Tamil / Sanskrit (via Portuguese)
1Hindi / Urdu (hybrid of English + Arabic)
1Spanish (from Basque)
1Spanish (from Chincha, Quechua)
1Mexican Spanish (from Nahuatl)
1Spanish (origin disputed)
1Hebrew / Aramaic
1Old Welsh / Common Brythonic
1Cornish / Brythonic
1Cornish / Middle Welsh
1Cornish / Old Welsh
1Welsh / Common Brythonic
1Cornish / Brythonic substrate
1Welsh / Brythonic Celtic
1Minangkabau
1English (origin obscure)
1French (from the Tatar peoples)
1English via Arabic
1Hindi via English
1English (from Madras, India)
1English via French
1English via Spanish
1French via Latin
1Wiradjuri (Australian Aboriginal)
1Nyulnyul / Gangulu (Australian Aboriginal)
1Yuwaalaraay (Australian Aboriginal)
1Guugu Yimithirr (Australian Aboriginal)
1Noongar (Australian Aboriginal)
1Middle Low German / Dutch
1Old Provençal / Old French
1New Latin (from German)
1English from Portuguese from Khmer
1English from Italian / Latin
1Filipino Spanish / Tagalog
1Italian/Spanish
1Spanish (Colombian)
1Spanish (Dominican)
1Chinook Jargon / English
1Occitan / French
1Italian / Arabic
1Hausa / Twi
1German / Latin
1Venetian / Greek
1Ancient Egyptian (via Latin)
1English from Dutch/German via French
1English from Middle High German via French
1English from Spanish or French
1English from Swahili from Arabic
1English from Ga (Ghana)
1English from Swahili from Arabic from Akkadian
1English from Afrikaans
1Georgian (from Arabic)
1Abkhazian
1English from Japanese
1Romani (from Sanskrit/Hindi)
1Romani (via Persian)
1English from Middle French from Latin
1Persian/Arabic
1English (technical portmanteau)
1English (deliberate misspelling)
1Dravidian (Tamil/Malayalam)
1Mycenaean Greek (Linear B)
1Latin (from Greek ánison)
1Cariban (via Caribbean Spanish)
1Persian (Farsi)
1Akkadian / Sumerian tradition
1Akkadian (from Sumerian gi)
1Swedish (surname)
1Scottish (surname)
1English (surname blend)
1Norwegian (surname)
1Thai from Sanskrit
1Thai from Pali/Sanskrit
1Lao/Thai
1Thai from Malay
1Lao/Thai (Isaan)
1Catalan / Occitan
1Old French (possibly Greek)
1French (from Turkish)
1English (proper name)
1Latin (from Semitic)
1Chinese Pidgin English
1Spanish (from Portuguese crioulo)
1Louisiana French (from Spanish la ñapa, from Quechua yapay)
1Louisiana Creole (from Provençal jambalaia, influenced by West African and Spanish)
1Jamaican Creole (from Bube dupe or related Bantu/Igbo forms)
1Jamaican Creole (from Igbo/Twi/West African, possibly from Hebrew via Arabic)
1Caribbean Creole (Trinidad, Guyana, St. Vincent — from Kikongo nzambi or related Bantu)
1Trinidad Creole (origin disputed: West African kaiso, or possibly French Caribbean créole)
1Spanish from Quechua
1English (onomatopoeic, origin uncertain)
1English from Russian (proper name)
1Persian via Hindi
1Spanish (from Caribbean origin, possibly Arawakan)
1Latin (possibly from Iberian Celtic or pre-Latin Alpine source)
1Carib
1English (early modern, from Dutch or Low German)
1English (Caribbean colonial)
1English naval slang
1French (place name via dynasty name)
1Greek (disputed: possibly from Italian or Turkish)
1Italian (from Langobardic)
1Turkish place name
1German place name
1Old Norse place name
1Latin from Greek (Sardinia)
1Arabic / French place name
1Latin from Greek (Troy)
1Akkadian / Hebrew place name
1Yupik / Inupiaq
1English from Mahlemut (Inupiaq people name)
1French from Old French
1Classical Chinese (strategic/aesthetic)
1Classical Chinese (aesthetic)
1Classical Chinese (Neo-Confucian)
1Spanish (from duen de casa)
1Spanish (sobre + mesa)
1Spanish (origin disputed; possibly Tertullian)
1Spanish (tele + novela)
1Spanish (vaca + -ero)
1Spanish (from Latin mixtus)
1Spanish (correr + de + toro)
1Spanish (from Quechua or Mapuche; origin disputed)
1Spanish (pasar + -eo)
1Lakota (Siouan)
1Natick (Massachusetts Algonquian)
1Narragansett Algonquian (New England)
1Muscogee (Creek)
1Cree (Algonquian)
1Unami Delaware (Algonquian)
1English place name
1Italian (from Medieval Latin)
1Wiradjuri (Aboriginal Australian)
1Yuwaalaraay (Aboriginal Australian)
1Jagera / Turrbal (Aboriginal Australian)
1Wemba-Wemba (Aboriginal Australian)
1Scottish Gaelic / Old French
1Irish (place name)
1Welsh / Celtic
1Celtic / Old French
1Irish (Gaelic)
1Malay (via Persian)
1Low German / Scandinavian
1Russian (from Turkic)
1Temne / Mandinka
1Kikongo / Kimbundu
1Gullah / Wolof
1Bantu (Shona / regional)
1Persian (via Latin)
1Persian (via Old French)
1Persian (via Greek and Latin)
1Persian (via Dutch and Low German)
1Algonquian (via Spanish)
1Tupi-Guarani (via French)
1Tupi (via Portuguese/French)
1Nahuatl (via Spanish)
1Rumsen Ohlone
1Algonquian (Narragansett/Cree)
1Algonquian (Abenaki/Powhatan)
1Turkish / Arabic
1Turkish / Italian
1Nigerian English
1Ghanaian English
1Louisiana Creole French
1Ancient Egyptian/Greek
1Okinawan / Japanese
1Middle English from Latin
1Italian from Greek
1Middle English from Anglo-Norman French
1Arabic (place name)
1Chinese (Mandarin chá / Hokkien te)
1Chinese (Cantonese/Pidgin English)
1Chinese (Hokkien/Cantonese via Pidgin English)
1Chinese (Hokkien/Cantonese)
1Tibetan (via Balti)
1Old Turkic / Mongolian
1Turkic / Mongolian
1Old Norse / Low German
1Nautical English
1Old English (from Proto-Germanic)
1Old French (from Frankish/Germanic)
1Middle English (from Middle Low German)
1Greek (via Latin and French)
1Hindi (via Persian, from Chinese)
1Guarani (via Spanish)
1Japanese (disputed)
1Arabic / Persian / Turkish (via French)
1Dutch/Greek
1Russian / Caucasian
1Middle English / Germanic
1Scandinavian / Middle English
1Modern English (coined from Greek)
1English (from Inuit/Cree contact)
1Inuvialuktun
1Arabic from Greek from Akkadian
1Latin from Mesopotamian technology
1Greek from Near Eastern building tradition
1Latin from ancient Near Eastern trade
1Russian (from Greek name)
1Sinhalese
1English (coined from Tanzania)
1English (from German surname Kunz)
1English (from Labrador, Canada)
1Latin (from Gaulish)
1English dialectal
1Latin (humorous misuse)
1Greek (via Latin/French)
1Greek/Italian
1Portuguese/Latin
1Anglo-French/Latin
1Middle English / Old Norse
1French/Latin
1Old French/Latin
1Javanese/Indonesian
1Filipino (Tagalog)
1Hawaiian / Polynesian
1Hokkien (Min Nan Chinese)
1Amharic / Tigrinya
1Amharic (via Italian)
1Tigrinya / Amharic
1Amharic / Ge'ez (Beta Israel)
1Arabic via Medieval Latin
1Greek via New Latin
1Medieval Latin (from Greek)
1English from Latin via Arabic
1Latin / New Latin
1Wolof via French
1Hindi / Punjabi
1Hindi (patti) via British India
1Old French via medieval Latin via Byzantine Greek
1Latin via Old French
1Old French via Anglo-French
1Latin / Medical Latin
1Afar / East African
1Swahili (from Arabic)
1Northern Sami (spoken in Finland, Norway, Sweden)
1Lithuanian (also Latvian: dziesma)
1Finnish and Estonian
1Portuguese (from Kimbundu/Bantu)
1Mandinka / Dyula (West Africa)
1Old Norman French
1Old French / Latin
1English from Tamil via French
1English from Greek via Latin
1French — the name Cyprus
1English from Latin tuberosa
1Italian (place name)
1Sumerian / Akkadian
1Romani-influenced English
1Arabic (for Egyptian concept)
1Arabic (for Egyptian structure)
1Greek via French
1English (botanical coinage)
1Greek via Modern Latin
1English from Old English
1English from Middle Low German
1English from Portuguese mangue
1Brazilian Portuguese / Spanish
1Brazilian Portuguese from Bantu
1Spanish/Basque
1Gascon/Basque
1English from Latin from Greek
1English from Latin from Proto-Indo-European
1English from Latin from Etruscan
1English from Sanskrit
1Yiddish/Hebrew from Babylonian Aramaic
1Late Greek / Medieval French
1Spanish / Portuguese
1French from Latin/Greek
1English from Greek via French
1English (origin disputed — possibly Norse or Low German)
1English from French, possibly from Spanish or Arabic
1Russian (from Kabardian/Nart languages)
1English from Latin via French
1English, probably from Petrus (Latin)
1Spanish from indigenous (Cumanagoto / Timoto-Cuica)
1Punjabi/Sanskrit
1Kabi Kabi
1Yagara
1Spanish from Indigenous American languages
1Twi1