köken: Attested from 1697. From Serbo-Croatian kukuruz or Romanian cucuruz (see there for further etymology). Compare Russian кукуруза (kukuruza), Hungarian kukorica, Slovene koruza, Polish kukurydza, etc.
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.
corncob, roasted corncob, ear of corn · maize, corn
çekim: çoğul भुट्टे
köken: Derived from Sanskrit भृष्ट (bhṛṣṭa), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *bʰr̥ṣṭás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰr̥štás, from Proto-Indo-European *bhr̥ǵ-tó-s (“roasted, fried”). An aspirated -ṭh- would be expected from -ṣṭ-, but the unaspirated form is probably from conflation with the reflex of Sanskrit भृक्त (bhṛkta). Cognate with Nepali भुट्नु (bhuṭnu, “to fry, roast”), Bengali ভুট্টা (bhuṭṭa). Originally…
köken: Attested in Karel Thám's Deutsch-böhmisches National-lexikon (1788), in actual usage at least since 1798. A wanderword, either from German Kukuruz, Hungarian kukorica or Slovak kukurica, in turn probably from Serbo-Croatian kukuruz or Romanian cucuruz (see there for further etymology). The ending of the modern form is probably due to paronymic attraction to common suffix -ice.
aile: kukuřičník
Opogný nápog také milugi, z kukuřice, kterau ženy zwikagi, a s slinámi do nádoby mecý, dělagi.
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…