Sounds like he's full of mferde --he confuses spuds
with cassaba/yuca/manioc when he's describing bread
made from powder --that's pan de yuca, not from
potatoes. He also confuses sweet potatoes with yams.
Sweet potatoes are from the Americas, yams are from
Africa and Asia. In one place he translates "aje" as
chile, which is true, since it's the source of
Caribbean Spanish ají, but later he translates it as
potato.
He also ignorantly speaks of dialects in Spanish and
"papa" as a word in "some dialects"--Spanish is so
uniform that native speakers have no problem
understanding one another from any other region. There
are regional accents and vocabulary (especially food)
but no dialects in the same sense of dialects of
English. Papa, btw: is the universally understood word
for potato, patata is only used in Spain and in Latin
America is apt to be confused with batata --Caribbean
Spanish for "sweet potato". Interestly enough, there
are varieties of sweet potato that look and taste more
like red potatoes than the orange variety found in the
US.
--- "Daniel J. Milton" <
dmilt1896@...> wrote:
> A history of the word "potato" is the latest
> entry on "The Polyglot
> Vegetarian", a wonderful site I recommend to all
> Cybalisters.
> http://polyglotveg.blogspot.com/
> Dan
> ******
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> >
> > That's because it's from *kWatata > Taino Celtic
> > batata, patata > Spanish batata, patata; although
> > Spanish usually uses papa < Andino-Celtic *kWakWa
> >
> > --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > Thanks for setting that right. That must be why
> I
> > > couldn't find
> > > *kWotato- in Pokorny.
> >
> > > Torsten
>
>
>
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