SC - Chocolate

[Virginia Gatling]

As I stated in my earlier post..."not a period resouce " and " don't know how it
holds for truth ..but is interesting"  Regina

Thomas Gloning wrote:

> <<< The word comes from the Mexican
> Indian choco, "foam," and alt, "water." >>>
>
> Philip Motley Palmer, Neuweltwoerter im Deutschen (words from the New
> World in German), 1939 says, that this etymology is not correct and that
> the word comes from the Nahuatl word _chocolatl_ (p. 123). He says:
> "Schokolade (...) Speise und Trank von der Frucht des Kakaobaums, wird
> unter dem span. Namen chocolate um 1550 in Europa bekannt durch Acosta
> (...)". The first German quotation, he gives, is from 1605. There are
> many more quotations from 1668 onwards.
>
> Perhaps it would be best to look up the word in the historical
> dictionaries of Spanish and Dutch. Comprehensive dictionaries often lead
> to interesting sources.
>
> Best,
> Thomas
>
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