The trade-language origin of “turmeric”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10880331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William Bruce Guthrie (Northland District Health Board, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 79-90 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | WORD (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-7956 • E-ISSN: 2373-5112 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00437956.2009.11432594 |
| OpenAlex | W1492854182 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
Authorities admit the etymology of the word turmeric is obscure, traced in the best references to an almost unknown French original used in commerce and that but rarely. No one has posited an origin for the French term or traced any early history, except to guess that it may come from neo-Latin. Meanwhile there are forms nearly identical to the English word in the trade languages of Southern and Eastern Asia, and ancient Asian languages attest to antecedents for the word's components. The paper argues that the ancient written records and current spoken forms support a theory that turmeric is itself the word which is inaccurately echoed by pharmacological Latin and commercial French
Economics · Linguistics · History · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Linguistics and language evolution · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |