Tonight my friends and I were dipping bananas in chocolate for dessert and I started thinking about where the word for chocolate came from. So, I did some quick research and found out that our word for chocolate originally comes from the Nahuatl language. For those of you that don't know, Nahuatl was spoken by the Aztecs in Mexico. It was called xocolatl and that was borrowed into the Spanish language and then subsequently ours. I find it quite amazing that certain words from obscure languages can have such an impact in all the languages of the world.
Other words I found that were derived from Nahuatl were tomato, coyote, chili and avocato. They were called tomatl, coyotl, chilli, and ahuacatl respectively.
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