| ▲ | socalgal2 4 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
How about the popular fruit with a vulgar name > The English word "avocado" comes from the Spanish word aguacate, which comes from the Nahuatl (Aztec) word ahuacatl. This Nahuatl word translates to "testicle". The name was likely given to the fruit by the indigenous Nahua people because of its suggestive shape, and the fruit's reputation as an aphrodisiac. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | crazygringo 4 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wherever you got that from has it backwards (it's a myth commonly repeated). The fruit name came first: > In Molina's Nahuatl dictionary "auacatl" is given also as the translation for compañón "testicle", and this has been taken up in popular culture where a frequent claim is that testicle was the word's original meaning. This is not the case, as the original meaning can be reconstructed as "avocado" – rather the word seems to have been used in Nahuatl as a euphemism for "testicle". | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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