succotash

[suhk-uh-tash] Origin

suc·co·tash

[suhk-uh-tash]
noun
a cooked dish of kernels of corn mixed with shell beans, especially lima beans, and, often, with green and sweet red peppers.

Origin:
1745–55, Americanism; < Narragansett (E spelling) msíckquatash boiled whole kernels of corn (cognate with Eastern Abenaki (French spelling) mesikoutar, equivalent to Proto-Algonquian *mes- whole + *-i·nkw- eye (hence, kernel) + *-ete·- be cooked (+ -w-) + *-ali plural suffix)
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succotash (ˈsʌkəˌtæʃ)
 
n
(US), (Canadian) a mixture of cooked sweet corn kernels and lima beans, served as a vegetable
 
[C18: from Narraganset msiquatash, literally: broken pieces]

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succotash
1751, from Narragansett (Algonquian) misickqatash "ear of corn," "of which divergent evolutions are given" [OED].
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