köken: From blé + Inde. From being something similar to wheat (“blé”) that is used by the American Indians (amérindiens); i.e. of India (d'Inde). From the historic European misconception that the New World, the Americas, were part of India or East Indies.
köken: Univerbation of grano + turco, itself a calque of New Latin frumentum turcicum. Literally, “Turkish corn”, coined by European botanists of the 1530s who were unaware that the plant was introduced from America.
köken: Likely from 강남 (gangnam, “Jiangnan”, itself a Sino-Korean word from 江南, from 江 (“[Yangtze] River”) + 南 (“south”)) + -앙이 (-ang'i, diminutive suffix).
maize, corn (any plant of the genus Zea) · maize, corn (grain of Zea mays) · corncob (central cylindrical core of an ear of maize on which the kernels are attached in rows)
çekim: çoğul kukurydze · tamlayan kukurydzy
eş: złoto Ameryki
köken: A Balkan wanderword, perhaps borrowed from Ukrainian кукуру́дза (kukurúdza), Serbo-Croatian kukuruz, or Romanian cucuruz. The penultimate vowel in the modern form is likely from influence of -yca. Compare Czech kukuřice.
maize, corn · corncob · pine cone or cone of another conifer
çekim: çoğul cucuruzi · tamlayan cucuruzului
köken: Attested 1575 as Cucurezi, the name of a village (today Cucuruzu, Giurgiu County), as Cucuruz from 1621. As maize (cucurudz, triticum turcicum) in Dictionarium Valachico-Latinum (Caransebeș, c. 1650). From Latin cucullus "hood, doll, cocoon" via a Balkan word – Aromanian cucul, Albanian kukull – with rhotacism l > r and suffix -uz (originally -ëz). The reference is to the wrapped, cocoon-like…
köken: Borrowed from either Serbo-Croatian sirak or Slovene sirek, from Italian sorgo, from Latin (granum) syricum (“Syrian grain”). The word-initial consonant became affricated from sz to c. First attested in 1465.