SC - guava

[Decker, Terry D.]

The 1520 date would be coincident with the early exploratory voyages along
the Brazilian coast (Cabral in 1500 and Correa in 1509).  The Arawaks
inhabited an area from the Guiana coast through the Greater Antilles while
the Tupis inhabit the Lower Amazon Basin.  If it was the Spanish who spread
the guava, it is more likely the fruit came from the Arawaks than the Tupis.

Bear

> and from various other early 
> sources from 1520
> onwards. According to Friederici, the origin is with the 
> "Insel-Aruaks,
> Insel- u. Festland-Karaiben, Tupis", then the Spaniards 
> spread the fruit
> and the word from there in other places (specified in some 
> detail on p.
> 283).
> 
> Thomas