Ukrainian - Kukurudza
[Anna Kofner]
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> From: bruce.reisch_at_cornell.edu
> To: CZERNOWITZ-L_at_list.cornell.edu
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Kukurutz
> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 19:04:59 +0000
>
> Like in German, corn is also known as "Maize" in English. Originating in
> Mexico, and found to be widespread in North America by Christopher
> Columbus and other explorers that followed, corn must have been introduced
> into Europe in the late 1400s/early 1500s. See
> <http://www.campsilos.org/mod3/index.shtml>.
>
> Images (festoons) of corn appeared in Europe in 1515 and thereafter,
> according to an article written by my fellow Jewish horticulturist, Jules
> Janick, of Purdue U., Indiana. See:
> <http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/firstimages.pdf>
>
> So, though the origins are in North America, corn may have been grown
> since the 1500s in Czernowitz and surrounding areas, but when the word
> Kukurutz was coined in a Slavic language I do not know.
>
> Bruce
>
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