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Borscht

2 stages from Ukrainian/Russian to English.

Today it means a soup made primarily from beets, popular across Eastern Europe
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borshch
Ukrainian/Russian · medieval
"beet soup"
a soup traditionally made from fermented beets
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borscht
English · 1880s
"a beet-based soup"
adopted by English speakers through Eastern European Jewish immigrant communities
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